The debut film directed by Darryl Marder, together with Derek Sianfrance and Abraham Marder to complete the story, Riz Ahmed's wonderful performance, and Paul Lacy's opposite lines and eyes Touching the audience, the sound design of the soundtrack of the film makes people change with the emotions of the characters, feel the metal sound in life, and experience the process of deafness together. This is a film that is more and more shocking as it goes on.
In the first act, Riz Ahmed brought the audience into the heavy metal music. As a heavy metal drummer, Ruben, how important it is to lose his hearing, let alone heavy metal. The most beautiful thing in the film is that the sound is better than the sound. The hearing is blurred, and the people around him cannot understand him. Ruben has been detoxing for four years because he has a girlfriend, and facing a person living in the deaf community will undoubtedly bring him back to the predicament he once had. Lou finally left voluntarily because of anxiety and fear. took him.
At the beginning of the second act of the film, Ruben has been in a state of sadness. Later, it can be seen that he has obviously improved. He has learned sign language, lives and goes to school with other deaf patients, but because he loves his girlfriend and music too much, he returns to When the eyes are in pain and confusion, the audience is also incomprehensible. As Joe said, it starts to look like he is addicted to drugs. Although Joe has religious beliefs, he is essentially helping the same people. He gave Ruben A very important piece of advice, sit back and look at this quiet world.
In the third act, he went bankrupt and installed a cochlear implant, but found that the sound was like a machine, and he had to adapt. This is the sound of metal in the title, eager to get what he wanted, but found that it was not as good as before. , thinking that his girlfriend's father will definitely give money to solve the remaining problems, this is like an addicted behavior, came to France to find Lou, constantly frustrated and collapsed in the noisy metal sound, the party staged a very dramatic bridge, Embracing Lou after doing all these stupid things, he used to be a drummer who loves heavy metal music, now he is so tired of these metal sounds, take off the cochlear implant, forget the harsh and noisy sound, the last scene looks at the quiet The world, with regret for the previous actions in his eyes, Ruben didn't know that the sound heard by the cochlear implant was not yet perfected by the current technology.
The film makes people go back and forth between beauty and pain, experiencing the rich emotions in the story, the subtitles in the film are very important, watching the sign language translation, Ruben finally understands the meaning of being alone, this film may not be good enough, but Refreshing and thought-provoking.
I wonder… all these mornings you've been sitting in my study, sitting, have you… had any… moments of… stillness?
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