Anempathetic sound
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Anempathetic sound in a film is the opposite of empathetic sound: sound—music or sound effects—that seems to exhibit a conspicuous indifference to what is going on in a film's plot, possibly thereby enhancing a sense of the tragic, as when a radio continues to play a happy tune when a character dies, or in Hitchcock's Psycho the continued sound of the shower running, as if nothing had happened. Another example of this is in Full Metal Jacket, when, after confirming two kills, the Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird" plays. Also, in Honey I shrunk the kids, the character of "Sweet-LJ" is heard humming the tune to Fraggle Rock just after the kids are shrunk.
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