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This year's Oscar for best sound effects, best editing video, I like it very much.
The core of self-salvation, although I can guess it roughly, still gave me a certain surprise.
A rock drummer suddenly loses the ability to perceive sound, a process of accepting himself "from being to nothing".
The head of the agency said "I lost my family, I lost everything, but I lost it not because I was deaf, but because of my alcoholism", they did not regard deafness as a defect or disease, so they taught ruben to learn and Being alone by yourself and externalizing your emotions with writing is the first step of redemption, that is, "redemption by other people's intervention"
The first half of the film has almost no background sound, just the faint sound of life from nature, until when ruben decides to have surgery, the piano has a sound, and after adjusting the equipment, the world becomes noisy and shrill.
The video simulates hearing the sound of the world after the deaf operation. Ruben described it as "high and sharp". It is true. The doctor said that your ear function is still malfunctioning, but the operation makes your brain mistakenly think that you can hear the sound. The sound is different now than it used to be, and you have to get used to it.
Until he saw Lu again, he finally understood that his life could never go back to the past.
I really like the way the ending is handled. In one scene, Ruben comes out of Lu's house. There is a pair of teenagers arguing about skateboarding on the street. Then there is a harsh sound from the distant bell. Ruben takes off the device on his ear. The next scene, The reconciliation of the quarrelsome skateboarders also indicates that rubem reconciles with himself, the world is quiet, looking up to the sky, the sun is still dazzling, this is the last step of redemption, "self redemption" and then the film quietly ends.
The title of the film is also very interesting. One is the sound of playing metal music, and the other is the sound of a deaf person who is equipped with "metal". When the external voice and the inner voice are in harmony, the self can also achieve reconciliation.
Suddenly thinking of the tattoo "please kill me" on Ruben's chest, loneliness arises spontaneously...
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