A mostly piano-and-strings sequence follows the contrast at the heart of the story: Johnny’s disciplined drive and physical strain alongside Shannon’s guardedness and the fragile possibility of trust. The music gradually opens from intimate, restrained passages into warmer, more expansive ones, with enough rhythmic lift to suggest rugby and school life without overwhelming concentration.
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20 songsThe Departure
Michael Nyman · Gattaca (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Hanging D
Joep Beving · Prehension
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Eastern Glow
The Album Leaf · In A Safe Place
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Horizon
Tycho · Epoch (Deluxe Version)
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Reach For The Dead
Boards of Canada · Tomorrow's Harvest
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Angel Echoes
Four Tet · There Is Love in You (Expanded Edition)
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Sycamore
Caspian · Tertia
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Your Hand in Mine
Explosions In The Sky · The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
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Arrival of the Birds
The Cinematic Orchestra · The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos (Original Soundtrack)
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Somehow Familiar
Fabrizio Paterlini · The Art of the Piano
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Mysterium
Hammock · Mysterium
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Turn Away and Return
Hammock · Everything and Nothing
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In a Landscape
John Cage · John Cage: Early Piano Music
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Pavane, Op. 50
Gabriel Fauré · The Secret Fauré 2
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Hours
Tycho · Dive
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She Moves She
Four Tet · Rounds
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Halls of the Summer
Caspian · Waking Season
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Prelude for Time Feelers
Eluvium · Pianoworks
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La femme d'argent
Air · Moon Safari
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Same book, another mood