The Broken Circle Breakdown (Felix Van Groeningen, 2012) encompasses a majority of themes: love, loss, heartbreak, faith, and parenthood- overall the circle of life. And as the film’s title suggests when this circle begins to be broken apart by the hardships of life, the breakdown is evident in the character’s emotional states and further emphasized through the metaphors conveyed in the bluegrass music. Bluegrass music plays a major role in creating the tone of the film as it adds to the imagery. The genre of bluegrass is associated with the hardships of living in the Appalachian region of North America. Such hardships such as loss, lament, heartbreak and the everyday lives of those who lived in this region are copied in the film. And as such
