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The Aftermath (#100B)
With the antagonist still alive, yet fatally wounded, the second sub-movement begins. The camera zooms in on the antagonist’s face. Cringing in pain, he looks at his murderer. After a moment, a look of satisfaction comes across his face. Without a hint of regret, he smiles and slowly reaches out towards the protagonist. His fingers touch our hero’s face, and then he falls backward with the blade still in him. The protagonist lets the sword fall with his enemy, and he himself falls to his knees at measure 71.
At measure 77 the mood becomes one of bitter accomplishment. Tears fall from the hero’s face as the camera slowly pans up and away from him in a circular motion, taking in the whole scene. The camera slowly pans out even further, until the men are just specks on the roof of the building. In the distance the sun is seen setting behind a river, shining off of it like a million diamonds. More memories start to flash across the screen, this time of some betrayal the antagonist had committed against the hero. These memories start to interchange between the ones shown earlier, and then the scene goes back to the setting sun at measure 119. At measure 123, the scene goes black as the credits scroll.
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