At the tender age of 12, I named my cat (the first I ever had), "Mallory", as in "Mickey and Mallory" from that Robert Rodriguez film, "Natural Born Killers".
Last time I watched it I was still early pubescent and before seeing it again now I thought there were probably some things I did not understand yet at that age. Just watched it again, and must admit that is not strictly speaking true. The main attraction of the movie remains the random, outrageous violence, with a bit of irony about popular culture thrown into the mix.
One of the few things that did escape me back in the day was the ingenious use of music. At the moment when Mickey and Mallory are walking down the stairs into the "lion cage" of police armed to the teeth all out to get them, the two of them using that TV show host as a human shield, scenes of a prison riot are cut in to be flashing past. These scenes are first being accompanied by some rather solemn, typically Islamic "Allah, Allah" sing song music, then by a more refined, but equally calm Sufi piece.
Turns out both are by Pakistani Qawwali superstar Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
One of them is this song.
Monday, September 26, 2011
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