It offers different kinds of dialogues for the deaf

"Sound of Metal" .. Radwan Ahmed excels in noise and calm

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This could be the first film to study the behavior of a character using sound effects like never before.

The movie "Sound of Metal" is about the story of the "Heavy Metal" drummer, meaning very loud music, who quickly loses his hearing while beating the drums, and thus the event forces him to stop and end his career.

When the movie begins, an original product of Amazon Studios - the e-commerce giant - we see Robin (the British Rizwan Ahmed or Riz Ahmed as foreigners prefer to call him) a band drummer beating his drums with great passion, while his girlfriend and partner Lulu (Olivia Cook) sing on stage.

Robin and Lulu are a small group that did not reach fame, but rather played for limited audiences in a group of cities.

Robyn and his girlfriend live in their trailer with their gear.

The relationship between them is romantic and professional at the same time.

Robyn is a former drug addict who recovered four years ago.

Lulu suffers from chronic depression, as it appears from the scars on her forearms, often resulting from suicide attempts, but the film does not explicitly address this.

The film is not much later than the first quarter of an hour. The problem arises when Robin scratches his ears, and then the external sounds become distorted until there is no more calm.

Director Darius Marder uses this technique throughout the film, relying in part on it to express his character.

Robin becomes panicked and depressed, especially as he contemplates returning to drugs as his future has stalled.

Lulu decides to put her boyfriend in a deaf sanatorium run by kind-hearted, but resolute Joe (Paul Rachi).

In order to accept Robin, Joe has three conditions: no car, no smartphone use

It is forbidden to have Lulu.

Robin refuses the terms, but succumbs to a lack of other options.

Robin is setting a goal of buying headphones for the deaf

And its installation by undergoing surgery.

"Sound of Metal" is a study of the behavior of a character that follows the course of the films of this same genre, but Marder is more interested in Robin's struggle than in solving his problem.

The character goes through all the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

Robin does not move forward an inch until he accepts his fate.

But there is a void between him and his deaf peers who live in Joe's clinic.

This void resulted in Robin not wanting to accept the deaf condition with a permanent destiny, but rather a temporary disability and he will treat it sooner or later, and he will restore even part of his hearing.

While according to Joe, others do not see it as a disability and do not seek treatment, but rather this deaf person is an integral part of their personalities.

This may be true, and that is that some in the deaf community refuse treatment or the installation of devices for this reason.

While the supporting cast is very strong, and in addition to the aforementioned, there is the Frenchman, Matthew Amalric, the father of Lulu, but this is Radwan Ahmed's film from beginning to end.

Radwan gave a wonderful and reserved performance away from emotions, crying and melodrama, or lectures about the event that broke his personality, as happens frequently in films of this type, and gave a rich performance thanks to his movement between the stages of grief and thus the stages of his personality.

This movie is not equal without the sound effects, as they insert the viewer into the character's head to feel what he is feeling.

Marder does not use music to let stillness dominate the scene as if he were a character in the movie.

Among the very interesting technical decisions is the transfer of the film from direct dialogue supported by a subtitle device for the deaf, to a full dialogue in the American version of sign language, to the use of distorted sound effects that reflect what the character hears.

Here, in the latter, Marder is careful not to overuse it, so that the film is not disturbing and distracts the viewer.

This is a realistic movie and the end of it is not clear if she is happy or sad, although she is slightly bent on the former.

The important thing is that realism does not transform Robin into a sacred figure, because he partially overcomes his disability, does not make a wise atmosphere of his time who has answers to all questions, and does not let philosophy overwhelm the ideas of the second character and drown the viewer, for example, in lectures about the value of calm.

Marder leaves the end open to interpret the scenes, and the end carries hope and contemplation of life with two values: the first is hearing, noise, and the joy of life, and the second is the deaf and the calm and tranquility it brings.

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• This is a realistic film and its conclusion is not clear whether it is happy or sad.

• The film is not equal without the sound effects, as they are the ones that insert the viewer into the character's head to feel what he is feeling.

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