I Will Find You - Clannad

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6. Just now sprang a theory on WHY the song and those scenes were removed.

I saw the movie in the theater and was mesmerized. Took the opportunity to own it when VHS was the prevailing home entertainment option. "Upgraded" to DVD when the technology shifted and, like so many others, was very disappointed with the altered version.

In the years since I have read my share of discussions echoing the sentiments expressed here and it just now hit me. Why ever would the director remove something so evocative and memorable from this film? Perhaps it is because "legacy is reductive" (quoting a line from another movie entirely).

Michael Mann might have been bothered by the fact the song, "I Will Find You" is the single most memorable part of the movie. Don't misunderstand me, I think it's a great movie. I can't tell you how many times I recommended it when I worked in the Video Room of a public library. But maybe Mann's artistic sensibilities were bruised because the song overshadows the whole of his work. I don't claim to know for sure, of course, it's just a theory.