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conversing pentatonic deception tense death fragmentation calm stinger Chinese walking leading lady tritone mysterious sinister panning shot dance music contempt dramatic setting tinkling servant shop polytonality parallelism body grieving looking exoticism hospital anxious lawyer home letter exotic mickey-mousing leaving murder fearful sequence foxtrot staring husband chromatic sequence composer reference ostinato plantation romantic dagger chromatic parallelism city recounting pc set lying denying policeman glorious prison arguing oscillation underscoring somber chromaticism passionate glass obsessive open fifth office dark gamelan curtain angry obsession sleeping sneaky happy confronting pedal tone crying layering source music murderer augmentation combination of themes plagal cadence comforting melodic cell pacing planning reacting Singapore main title warehouse antagonist confessing lacework sitting polyrhythm dancing heroic cut from film ominous thinking solemn emotional refusing watching augmented triad Indonesian music waiting investigating gentle Chinatown zoom in widow call and response distress cheerful suspension polychord chromatic quintal chord point of view moon drinking fanfare stern Lydian mode tone cluster collapsing reading whole-tone chord tender sign noble reveal entering resolution serious playing music falling party dirge distortion light delicate shadow courtroom mournful glance friend brassy title of film buildup turning on native kissing door cloud plotting dinner music parallel fifths stooping sad bold reverse picardy WB shield opening despair dropping cast list driving climax celebrating spying starring list creeping quartal chord arpeggiation on-screen music closing credits suspenseful artwork in score running paying longing dripping weeping fainting gunshot arriving whole-tone trial gun minor-major 7th chord yearning embracing eating justice wipe jungle