And I understand why. I just saw Capote. As music, it's score is nothing spectacular: just piano & synths, nothing we haven't heard a lot of before. But you've got a story about 2 kinds of killers. One killer is a guy with an artistic bent who "goes out the back door" and kills a family for mysterious reasons involving lack of love & appreciation growing up. The other killer "goes out the front door", he too has artistic talent, a need to be appreciated as well, but has had much better success and yet, even so, is willing to kill in order to get the story he wants and to fulfill his ambitions. Once again as you get so often in films, you have a lot of surface detail that alludes to more interior thoughts and emotions. And that's where the score comes in, is necessary, really. The score, even though it's not all that special as music, becomes the soul of the film, the key to the gravity of what is going on underneath the sequential surface events. Without the score you have almost a docu-drama, but with it, you "hear what they feel", you get an added layer of meaning that isn't more info than you need, but the opposite, info you have to have to get a handle on what these people are feeling as they use each other to meet their needs and pursue their various ends. Now the score alone doesn't shoulder the whole burden: pace of the dialogue, use of close-ups, the entire lighting scheme tell you when things are going from public to more private, but even so, the image is weaker on its own than compared to how it is with the score. The score is necessary. Without the score, the communication would still be along the same lines, but it would be partial and incomplete. There's nothing wrong with having to work a little to get something. Maybe that's better than having it all put in your lap. Still, the score isn't just simplfying or making more blatant and less subtle the message, the score is the message, or a good deal of it. So, I'm back to that reductive equasion again: image+music=greater meaning than image or music alone.