This piece is heartrending and unfathomably alien all at once, using only a repeating two-note tone, some ambience, and little bit of droning to get across the sheer loneliness and sadness of Cooper's situation while trapped in the Tesseract. It has a tragic sense of majesty and helps make real the challenges the human race will face when exploring the galaxy. It slowly builds in intensity as the crew discovers the truth, to the point where it swells when the wave looms above them before crashing down, bringing home how small and insignificant they seem and how easily bested they are by the inhospitable elements. It starts very low key and quiet, with a constant ticking clock motif subtly reminding the viewer of the time dilation effect present on the planet per Word of God, every tick is a single Earth day, and there are around 60 ticks-or about two months-per minute. The score for the scene on Miller's planet, titled "Mountains", and its extended version, "Tick-Tock".Mann is showing the Endurance crew his world that epitomizes the wonder of exploring an alien planet. There's a small piece of music that plays while Dr.Maybe right now, she's settling in for the long nap. All of that interspersed with a montage of scenes showing Brand doing her best on the new homeworld and Cooper and TARS preparing for another voyage, confident and happy this time that humanity has a future. Made even better by the score going hand in hand with Murph's contemplation on what Amelia Brand must be going through right now, as the first colonist and founder of what might become a new human civilisation. Earth life and humanity survived, receiving a second chance. Much had to be sacrificed, but ultimately. The increasingly majestic musical crescendo at the end turns things around. The story up until then was often engulfed in a fairly dark and pensive atmosphere, bordering on hopelessness at times.
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