![]() ![]() They don’t know if the next night will go well and cannot rely on any future. The characters in From live in a constant veil of uncertainty. What you can’t fail to notice is the darker mood the cover by The Pixies has: interpreted by Black Francis and his band, Que Sera Sera acquires a pessimistic meaning which perfectly fits the plot of the TV series From. “The future’s not ours to see,” sings Doris Day in the chorus. ![]() Enjoy your present, day after day, and we will see together what shape our future will have. But the mother answers wisely: you better not worry about what will happen because there is no way you can control or predict it. As you can hear in the original version, it conveys a positive, optimistic message: the little girl has many doubts about what her life will be in her future and has many questions for her mother. “Que Sera Sera” means “whatever will be, will be” in Spanish. In the scene where she plays it on the piano, the character played by Doris Day is singing Que Sera Sera with all the energy she has, hoping her daughter will hear it: at that moment, a group of spies has kidnapped her little girl, but her mother knows she’s there in that building and hopes that hearing the song she loves, the daughter will find a way to escape and reunite with her mom. In The Man Who Knew Too Much, the song has a specific meaning for Doris Day: it’s a melody she often sings to her daughter, a joyful song that gives her happiness. ![]() You can watch the iconic scene from Hitchcock’s film here on Youtube. Originally, Que Sera Sera is a song written in 1955 by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans and performed by the singer and actress Doris Day in 1956 for Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece The Man Who Knew Too Much. ![]()
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