Today, let's talk about the movie "The Sound of Metal".
Titled Sound of Metal (2019), alias Silent Drummer (Taiwan).
This is an Amazon original film and director Daryl Mader's debut feature film about a drummer in a metal band who suddenly becomes deaf.
The male protagonist, Ruben, was a drummer in a metal band. He was exposed to high-decibel sounds for many years. He suffered from sudden deafness, and his hearing dropped sharply. He soon became deaf.
The setting of Ruben is very interesting. It seems that he is the drummer in a rock band, but in fact this rock band consists of Ruben and his girlfriend and lead singer.
Compared with those rock stars who are always responding, Ruben and Lu's band are still in the underground stage, while touring everywhere to accumulate popularity, and on the other hand, they are looking for cooperation with big companies, trying to make a name for themselves.
They were also financially strapped, living in an RV and wandering around looking for gig opportunities.
When the world suddenly lost its voice, everything fell silent.
You might as well think about it, or give it a try, turn off the speakers, headphones, telephone, TV, and put on earplugs. Will there be a sudden static feeling?
In rock concerts, the lead singer will shout "Make some noise~" and "Get up~" when they mobilize the atmosphere. This is the reason. With sound, people will move along with them, and they will feel when they work.
When you hear excellent and grand music, you look at the huskies and huskies around you, all thinking about riding each other into the battlefield. Listening to soothing and soft music can also relax people's body and mind. Hearing white noise is another source of solace.
But Ruben's setting is a metal band drummer, who needs to work at a high decibel level and needs to be very impatient. Metal music itself is full of this struggle and unruly. It never bows its head like fate. I always feel that I can fight with it, even if it is broken, I have to give it a try.
It is in such an environment that Ruben is deaf.
As if fate played a joke on Reuben, pressing the pause button in Reuben's restless life.
Physics tells us that where there is mass, there is inertia. The same is true of life. Everyone will live according to their familiar routines, and it is impossible to change suddenly.
Getting a restless drummer to accept the sudden stillness of life is no easy task.
"The Sound of Metal" tells the story of a metal drummer who suddenly entered a quiet life from a restless life.
As shown in the film, Ruben tried a variety of ways and methods to try to find a new way of life that he could adapt to after he was suddenly deaf.
Reuben went through the five stages of the DABDA grief cycle. "The Voice of Metal" shows his process of denial, anger, compromise, depression, and acceptance.
Ruben refused, refused to accept the fact that he was deaf, and wanted to continue on tour.
Ruben was angry, vented his emotions to all the unsatisfactory things around him, and smashed a lot of things.
Reuben compromised, sought medical treatment, went to live in a mutual aid society according to Lu's wishes, learned sign language, and lived with a group of deaf people.
Reuben was depressed, unhappy watching Lu's tour, trying to accept peace but couldn't write a word.
Eventually, Reuben accepted the calm. After receiving treatment, he returned to the hustle and bustle of life again, only to find that he could never go back.
When life encounters major changes, a person needs to adjust how to adapt.
The Sound of Metal answers that question with one of the most hearing-hungry drummers experiencing deafness.
"Did you feel a moment of peace in those afternoons sitting in the room?" The film answers in a zen-like way. At first, Ruben could not understand this way of seeking peace, thinking that it was just a metaphysical trick, but when he resisted and tried to go back, he realized that the answer to adapting to the new life had already been given.
The restless life suddenly stopped,
Veterans don't die a different way.
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