Sound of Metal .

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#SoundOfMetal

Good, clean, #Whiplash-meets-#ChildrenOfALesserGod Awards-Bait fun.

Don't think too hard about cute stuff like plot mechanics, character motivations, character decisions, logistics, etc. etc. etc., just marvel at the how precisely the young filmmaker crafted this in a (#Sundance?)lab for maximum Festival/Awards/#Oscars impact. He could teach a whole MasterClass on that(may as well, no?, everyone seems to be teaching everything on ye olde MC these days).

More than Acting-With-A-Capital-A, I truly am a sucker for The Rylance School of Underacting-With-A-Capital-U-And-A that Ahmed seems to excel in. It truly is a remarkable thing: stare longingly off camera with a blank expression and let the critics fall over themselves trying to fill in the, ahem, blank. Works…every…time. And Cooke's accent, I'm always surprised to find out she's British, she sounds pukka American to me.

Kudos to Becker and the sound design, principally because there's so much of it, trying to figure out why the sounds ducks in and out from subjective to objective, well, that's all part of the fun innit(h/t to Ahmed & Cooke🇬🇧)? And kudos to Amalric for sauntering in with his patented intense off-kilter energy and that beautiful Parisian(or is it Brussels-ian🤔?) townhouse, man, that think deserves a spinoff AD movie of its own🤩!

But, you know, this whole enterprise truly and fully belongs to Raci whose steady, grounded, emotionally honest work is what makes the entire epic enterprise(EEE?) worthwhile. What a story he is, no? Tooling around in Hollywood for decades as a #CODA(you'll hear more on that next Awards Season, trust me on that😄) until finally getting his big breakthrough, and boy, does he make the *most* of his moment in the Sun.

A true inspiration for *all* of us old creatives, no?

PS. Before all y'all get your hackles up, the main characters were deaf-*ened*, which is why it wasn't ableist to not hire deaf actors…or so they tell me🤗

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#DariusMarder #NicolasBecker
#PaulRaci #RizAhmed #OliviaCooke #MathieuAmalric #LaurenRidloff

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