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Sound of Metal (2019)

Music | 120 minutes
3,70 425 votes

Genre: Music / Drama

Duration: 120 minuten

Country: United States / Belgium

Directed by: Darius Marder

Stars: Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke and Paul Raci

IMDb score: 7,7 (159.466)

Releasedate: 20 November 2020

Sound of Metal plot

"Music was his world. Then silence revealed a new one."

The young Ruben is a drummer and a member of a heavy metal band with his girlfriend Lou. His life collapses when he begins to lose his hearing. This puts pressure on relationships with Lou and the other band members.

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De filosoof

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Unfortunately, my last film in the cinema before the lockdown was a disappointment. The story of the film is simply not interesting, partly because in my opinion it is poorly told. Instead, the film seems to be strongly focused on communicating the experience of being deaf (and vice versa, this is a film for the deaf because every sound is communicated in text), but that experience is hardly surprising so that the film adds little and in the absence of a strong or compelling story, the film quickly becomes boring.

The movie's message seems to be that the world of the deaf is as much fun as the world of the hearing (so that being deaf isn't so bad in the end) and that $40,000 to $80,000 for an implant is a waste of money because what you then hear is not really a clear or nice sound (although you would think that that is not such a problem for this noise musician) and you then find yourself between two worlds and you neither are at home anymore.

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james_cameron

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Strong, subtly gripping film with a beautiful lead role by Riz Ahmed. Director Darius Marder takes his time to introduce his characters, and his raw, realistic approach to the plot pays off as he goes along. Especially impressive is the soundtrack, which aptly reflects the increasingly declining hearing of main character Ruben.

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JJ_D

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'Sound of metal' – a film that, like the title, gradually gains in significance. Initially Darius Marder didn't get me into the narrative, but it seems increasingly oppressive. The hyperkinetic editing, the camera work that gets close to the skin, the unusual intensity of the sound, ...: it drags the viewer ever deeper into the psychology of Ruben, whose tragic despair is therefore also more and more palpable. In other words: how the way of portraying images (and sound) intensifies the experience... astonishing!

Does the castle breathe hope or despair? Both, most definitely. All is lost, and it is precisely this knowledge that makes a revolution possible. Ruben and Lou touched and rescued each other, but at this point in their lives, they each write a different story. They cannot save each other again, their roles are ingrained in their bodies – the only possible transformation is that of the 'I'. Lou has realized that by developing a different artistry, and for Ruben too, with his choice to cut out all noise, it looks like a new reality is revealing itself. Unparalleled is how the sudden silence intensifies the cinematography, how existence seems to regain coherence, and therefore meaning. Despite – or because of – the crisis and despair… hope again!

Thus 'Sound of metal' can be understood as a parable about falling, getting up, falling again, and eventually learning to walk differently to stop falling in the same way. Nothing will be the same, and yet life becomes even more valuable, as it were, in the second chance – the alternative – that Ruben will seize. Deeply, deeply moving – all the more so because Marder arrives at a portrait with the utmost integrity and touching from the greatest misery and the greatest noise. Or how, in addition to countless clichés, this film also effortlessly transcends the stereotype of the subculture.

3.5*

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