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Music As Diverse As The Singers Analysis

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Music as Diverse as the Singers
In the Commitments, director Alan Parker beautifully depicts the liberating effects of music. Music brings the members of The Commitments together and gives them a purpose. In one scene towards the end of the film The Commitments, dressed in suits, are standing atop piles of rubbish for their promotional band picture. Music has liberated them and this image is proof of it because the group all came from lower class families and by coming together to make soul music, they are rising above the garbage.
Towards the end of the film Joey says, “(Jimmy) raised their expectations of life, (Jimmy) lifted their horizons”. The band acts as an escape for many of the characters, one example being Jimmy, who uses the band

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