The Big Chill

I always try to watch at least one movie a week. One sounds like such a small number, but with school and work and life, there are times where I never even meet that goal. The one movie that I did watch, recently, was The Big Chill. And I was amazed at how incredible the soundtrack was.

The soundtrack of the film was comprised of songs Lawrence Kasdan's wife found — songs that were all the rage the days the group of friends were in college.

I'm a big fan of 60s and 70s music and a smile would burst onto my face every time I heard a new song. In an interview with Meg Kasdan (Lawrence's wife), she explained how she was given the job of listening to all the main songs of the late 60s and early 70s — songs that would have defined the lives of the characters while in college — and figuring out which ones to use in the film. According to her, there were some songs that she (and her husband) knew would fit perfectly with a scene, to heighten the audience's emotions, but there were also moments that took a lot of time to find the perfect song.

What I liked about the soundtrack was that I knew all of the songs. As much as I enjoy music made specifically for a film, as it gives each scene a unique sound, the pop songs in The Big Chill worked, well. They felt seamless with the emotions presented and the relationships between the characters. Meg Kasdan did a fabulous job at choosing songs, and the rest of the sound editing team did a stupendous job at weaving them in and out of the scenes. Big congrats to them, I couldn't get over how amazing it was and wouldn't stop mentioning it to my mom (who also loves the film) for days.