After years of loud concerts, rock drummer Ruben suddenly loses his hearing. With his world falling apart, his girlfriend and bandmate finds him a spot in a deaf community. Here he will learn to cope with being deaf and commune with other deaf people. In addition Ruben holds out hope for surgery that will restore his hearing.
A quite novel film: there's not too many films that cover deafness, certainly not ones where we see a character lose their hearing and how they learn to live with the change. Quite engaging as we see Ruben deal with it after in an instant his whole world has changed.
Quite confronting too, as, through this engagement with Ruben, you're forced to think about how you would handle it if something like that happened to you, and how easily it could happen. This makes the first half or so of the movie quite an ordeal, though in a positive way as it helps you empathise with people who suffer something like this.
However, having set up the plot the movie does drift towards the end. The conclusion ties things together quite neatly, though fairly predictably.
Ultimately, very original and reasonably thought-provoking but it misses that something extra, especially towards the end, to make it brilliant.
A quite novel film: there's not too many films that cover deafness, certainly not ones where we see a character lose their hearing and how they learn to live with the change. Quite engaging as we see Ruben deal with it after in an instant his whole world has changed.
Quite confronting too, as, through this engagement with Ruben, you're forced to think about how you would handle it if something like that happened to you, and how easily it could happen. This makes the first half or so of the movie quite an ordeal, though in a positive way as it helps you empathise with people who suffer something like this.
However, having set up the plot the movie does drift towards the end. The conclusion ties things together quite neatly, though fairly predictably.
Ultimately, very original and reasonably thought-provoking but it misses that something extra, especially towards the end, to make it brilliant.