Raised in this place, we see how she prepares herself in school, through all kinds of activities, for her future there. The first thing we see of her is her routine in the military quarantine zone in Boston, Massachusetts.
In this regressive journey we meet a slightly younger Ellie, albeit a few months earlier. But, at that point, the game takes the license to make a time jump to Ellie’s past, adapting the events of The Last of Us: Left Behind DLC. At that point, Ellie must take the reins of the situation and become his protector, reversing the roles they had played so far. That is, after Joel is stabbed and loses consciousness. Left Behind: getting to know Ellie’s backstoryĮpisode 7 of The Last of Us begins where the sixth episode left off. And now we have seen it again, with an episode 7 that has lived up to one of the most remembered moments of the saga. We already saw it in episode 3, in which the plot took a pause to tell the beautiful homosexual love story between Bill and Frank. Its slow, unison chords in the lower strings, creating that dense, solemn texture, alongside the soaring solo violin line, have made Richter’s work a poignant choice for moments of on-screen grief and contemplation.It is in the pauses, in the moments away from the frenetic action of the video game, where the HBO Max series contributes the most. ‘On the Nature of Daylight’, the centrepiece of Richter’s album The Blue Notebooks, is usually classed as modern classical, post-minimalist.
In 2019, the composer explained that the piece is also structured as a palindrome – ridden with internal symmetries, inspired by his studies of Renaissance music. It was an attempt, the composer has said, to create “luminous music out of the darkest materials”. Richter has previously said the song is a protest against violence, specifically related to the Iraq war which was happening at the time of writing. What does ‘On the Nature of Daylight’ mean? Read more: The Handmaid’s Tale soundtrack: All the classical music featured in the hit Hulu showįrank and Bill play the piano for each other in The Last of Us. Daylight, for Bill and Frank, has come to an end. Frank is unaware that Bill has come to the conclusion that he would rather die without his husband than try to survive the apocalypse alone.ĭuring this heartbreaking montage of their last day together, Max Richter’s highly atmospheric ‘On the Nature of Daylight’ (2004) plays, its haunting strings concluding their love story and coaxing the listener into a state of melancholic calm. They both take a sip of wine, which is drugged, and slip away in their sleep.
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