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The acting, plot and theme are completely unqualified. Riz's acting made me play too much: people who have just lost most of their hearing have such precise control over their speech, the weak voice and the emotions expressed in their voices are naturally the same as healthy people, I have to say that the male protagonist is a genius.
The film does a wonderful thing - it feels long and the story is rushed. The male protagonist refused to join the mutual aid club and was still licking the wounds with the female protagonist that night, and he went crazy the next morning, why? The female protagonist regarded him as a safe haven, but she was very moved when the male protagonist desperately said "I'll fix it." and then closed the car door to let the male protagonist get exhausted. Sister, shouldn't you at least say "don't say that", is it true? You think that the male protagonist has a "problem" that needs to be "fixed", but the purpose of your coming here is obviously just to let the male protagonist rest. As for the male protagonist, he was almost abandoned by the female protagonist and forced to go to the mutual aid association, so he just accepted his fate? He is more likely to drive their "home" to pursue his love and career. Then, I understood that the film wanted to write "he tried but found it all meaningless", so I arranged a plot that integrates into the group and breaks away from the group, but the space is not enough, the emotional progression is not in place, and the purpose is too strong. appear deliberate. Including the installation of the hearing aid, how could the doctor not give the male protagonist an expectation in advance, telling him that it is difficult to restore his previous hearing or that there is a chance that it cannot be restored. But in order to highlight the dramatic conflict of "failed expectations", the film just omits this process. Unless you want to say that the doctor is a profiteer, this paragraph is too unreasonable; but if such an element is added, and you want to have a paragraph of "The Bleeding Edge", the script will be even more rushed.
In addition, the movie is called "The Sound of Metal", but the male protagonist's motivation is either music or love, and it is not limited to "metal". After wearing a hearing aid, the sound he hears has a metallic quality, but it runs counter to the metallic music he pursues. This is the irony of reality against ideals. I've been waiting for a line like this, or at least a hint, but the writers clearly have no intention of doing it.
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