take this waltz has at least one great scene

I'm as guilty as anyone of not paying enough attention to the use of sound in movies. From Take This Waltz, a movie I'm frustrated at for sociological reasons, here's a really nice little sequence:

First we get an shot from inside the house, with some lonesome country music in the background that you probably wouldn't even notice. If you listen closely (put your ear to the screen) you can even hear the bubbling of the pots. Outside, there's Seth Rogen — you can see the sliver of his face next to the left curtain. Inside we've got Michelle Williams. So far, so good.

After a couple of cuts, we get Seth outside ... and now the music cuts out and all we hear is crickets. It's a little jarring, but it's ingenious. For one, at this point in the movie, the whole dynamic between them (they're married) is that they're feeling distant from one another even as they struggle to get closer, so this is a brilliant effect to show us how separate they are.

It gets better, though.

You can't see it (try squinting) but Seth sees Michelle moving her lips, so he starts moving back and forth, getting in tune with music he (we) can't hear.

Back inside the window, we can hear the music again. And now they're touching, except through the glass, so not really: another great metaphor for alienation. This builds up to some glass-smooching which is probably sort of overdoing in with the schmaltz, and, in any event, is just an extension of this hand stuff.

So Seth finally comes in. As he does, we hear (don't see) the door open and briefly, the two sonic worlds merge: crickets and country music. The door closes again, and now it's just the crickets. Genius.