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I've heard a lot of music in films with lyrics that compliment what is happening or serve as a dark/comic contrast with what is happening on screen, but seldom do I hear pre-existing songs that are about something else entirely but somehow the movie manages to incorporate them into the story in a fitting, uniquely unexpected way.
Inspired by Marriage Story's scene where Adam Driver sings Being Alive from the play Company, where the song's lyrics in the play are when the protagonist realizes that he wants to be with someone. The words "Somebody to crowd me with love / Somebody to force me to care / Somebody to let me come through" echo the loneliness the protagonist feels, who feels as if he's missed out on life by disregarding companionship as superfluous. It is an uplifting ballad in the play. However, in the movie, it serves as Charlie's closure to his character arc - with him coming to terms that this will be his life for the time being until he finds someone else. Or it could be interpreted as Charlie lamenting on what he has finally lost.
Another example of this would be "Somebody to Love" by Jefferson Airplane in the movie A Serious Man, where the opening lines of "When the truth is found / To be lies / And all the joy within you dies" can be interpreted wildly differently from its original interpretation of a failing relationship. These lines only are repeated through the film, which indicates the crisis of Faith the protagonist is having. The "truth" can be interpreted as God, the way he's lived his life, or something else.
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