‘I Care a Lot’ composer on the film’s ‘uneasy’ score and dismantling the American Dream

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'I Care a Lot' composer on the film's 'uneasy' score and dismantling the American Dream

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Netflix’s I Care A Lot is nothing if not unsettling.

Writer and director J Blakeson’s thriller can be uneven, but one thing that shines throughout is Marc Canham’s disquieting musical score. A blend of synthetic and manipulated sound elements, Canham’s score recalls the momentum of The Social Network or unease of Ex Machina. It ratchets I Care A Lot up to 11 and leaves us there to spiral.

“I was really inspired by sort of modern, almost minimalist … the world of colliding organic recording ideas and electronic and programmed ideas,” Canham told Mashable in a recent phone interview. Read more…

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