WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING (with Sandra Bullock)

What's special about that movie WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING: What I especially like about that movie is that it often talks without speaking.

Of course the instrumental parts (issit orchestra ?) belong to this, above average music orchestra painting at timelines in the movie that would feel naked otherwise. And the first interesting thing about the music score is that the empty road is not filled with JUST music but with a music landscape of hills and valleys, i.e. changing emotions.

And then there is also the second interesting means of emotion paiting in this movie and that is the face of Lucy (and also the faces of other people in the movie): Lucy (Sandra Bullock) arrives at the house of Peter's family and at first you neither see the car nor see Lucy. However you hear the music painting, painting a balanced landscape but as the car gets closer to the house the music rises its emotions and paints some nervousness into the landsacpe. Lucy's face exactly matches this nervousness, these mixed emotions, but it also shows her inner balance at the same time.

Before the taxi came into view, the music painting had already started on just the empty road. I actually wondered then why there was emotion in the music when there was just an empty road visible. But then I understood as the taxi came into view: The music had described Lucy's emotions even though she was not yet visible.

Very sophisticated music painting - or more exactly - skillful timing. Such skillful painting can not be found every day.

And also funny: Lucy's feelings are like layers: There is the basic calm layer of her character shining through and then there is the HOW-TO-DEAL-WITH-THIS-SITUATION layer of emotions on top that shows her doubts and nervouseness.

Her face talks and the music paints a supporting landsacpe and no words are necessary to make the audience understand what's going on. That's what I mean when I say this movie is talking without speaking.

There are many other examples in this movie where there are no words wasted. It's so great that the silence, the music and the faces (Lucy's face) are speaking so nicely in this movie.