Cris d'extase

{There is no spoiler alert, because there's no story to spoil}. Its not long into this well-worn post-apocalyptic tale of the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine) when the bare chests (both genders) emerges for some pointless nudity, of the jiggly type, that runs pretty much til the end. Among the many things lost in the film aside from clothing, was: a story line, plot, cohesive editing, acting ability, budget, set design, credible foley work, continuity, and above all original music. I focus on the music because it's so blatantly misused. Kubrick and Tarantino , IMO, have mastered the usage of pre-published music to be used as underscore. Someone from this mess (it may have been USCHI because sadly her and her 2-breasts friends have limited appearance) had the time to dig-up Bela Bartok's masterpiece "Music for Percussion, Strings and Celeste" and fly-it-in the movie's audio track. This composition has 4 movements: 2 adagio, and 2 allegro.

If you were watching this film and were not too focused on the jiggles, and you had a higher education, you may not have only noticed this piece of music, but you may also have remembered hearing it in the Kubrick masterpiece "The Shining" of which the 2 adagio movements are prominent. The difference here is that Stanley perfectly placed the music's tonal and dynamic changes to synchronize with the visual as well as support the mood of the scenes. In Cries of Ecstasy, one of the allegro movements and one of the adagio movements are just haphazardly flown in without any care to relevance. The allegro movement gets over-used to death and its random and perforated placement makes absolutely no sense with the visual. Some obscure free-jazz would have been better, or possibly Yoko-Ono vocals. This piece is now public domain so they don't have to pay anything for usage, leaving Bela to turn in his grave yet he may find some comfort in the afterlife knowing the producers or the people in charge of titles/credits had the good taste to not credit the music at all. 3-stars for Bela's bare breasted allegro!