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The Graduate

from Bike Race by Imperial Midge

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It was on September 27, 2002 that we crossed this line and acknowledged that we were in love with each other. During the final stage of the bike race a few weeks later, ironically in the small town of Ghent, Minnesota, Hilde and I confessed to our partners what had happened and we rode away together in the backseat of a car.

(Bike Race – 2010)
Lance: We were driving away from Ghent, Minnesota and I was being jostled about in the backseat feeling kind of sick, but I was holding your hand.
Hilde: And I looked up at you and I said, “Well, I hope we like each other.”

When I was editing the sound for the film “Bike Race” the tone of Hilde’s circumspect, final statement reminded me of the bus scene at the end of “The Graduate.” Dustin Hoffman’s character has willfully disrupted the wedding and fled with the woman he loves: the grand wish-fulfillment fantasy of many movies that had shaped my idea of romantic love as a young man. The two lovers sit in the rear of a bus and the camera dwells on them for longer than is comfortable. Both the characters and the audience are given time to consider “Now what?” Reputedly, Mike Nichols didn’t rehearse the actors for that shot. He started the take and simply didn’t call ‘cut.’ The discomfort that Nichols elicited from Hoffman and Katherine Ross is authentic. The uncertainty of the future emerges, the knowledge that after every action, no matter how thrilling, a mundane ordinariness inevitably ensues.

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from Bike Race, released December 27, 2019
Reid Kruger - Drums, Keyboards, Vocals
Tom Schroeder - Guitar, Voiceover, Story
Jonathan Zorn - Bass

Additional voices: Hilde De Roover, Cis Bierinckx

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