With Mr. Salinas and Greenberg's consent, I offer to kickoff our visit with an immediate impression during the start
of the
film that distinguishes it's score from Cartel Land's... it deftly emerges with
warm, melodic cello and higher - notes vibraphone progessions from a dreamlike silence, and only registers as a lilting, tender counterpoint to the viscerally intense imagery
of ISIS - occupied contemporary Raqqa, Syria in the picture's opening sequence well after we're already emotionally all - in invested via what will certainly be a harrowing, yet inspiring cinematic
experience.