Cue of the Week: “Annie’s Remorse”

This week’s cue comes from the film A Chrismystery, wherein protagonist mom/cop Annie feels contrition after an interpersonal conflict.

The melody begins with the film’s main theme in mirror inversion, meaning that every time a note climbs in the original theme it now descends, and vice versa. This technique doesn’t always produce a musically interesting result, but in this case it created a nicely melancholy tune that still felt related to the movie’s core melody.