Having enjoyed the novel and built certain images in my head I was very pleased to find what I got from the film was very similar to my impressions of the book. The soundtrack was so effective I bought it the day after seeing the film-I was transported to the hot, still Oxfordshire countryside with the spine-tingling Balloon Music and Pastorale with it's Ralph Vaughn Williams-esque harmonics and violin solo, and into delusion and paranoia with the jagged, creepy 'Lonely piano into carchase' and the two Passacaglias. The album stands by itself as a journey-you are hooked from the start and taken through a plethora of violent emotions, ending on one thrilling, drawn-out note.