Not quite sure what this film was meant to be about.
Firstly it's hearing loss for a working musician, but that soon turns into a recovering addict dealing with a life changing problem, which quickly becomes an addict entering a cult like therapy with no real explanation of their extreme lock in conditions imposed on him. Phone and transport confiscated? Why? Why cut him off from his support community? Why imprison him, he's an ex addict, dealing with a life changing situation. Why punish him for for seeking the advantage of hearing in his life which requires it?
Was it about the sorry sate of medical assistance in America? He had to sell off all his belongings to address his hearing loss.
These questions are never answered and he moves on to the final stage of the movie, reuniting with his girlfriend who unsurprisingly has grown in a different direction during the imposed unreasonable and unexplained no contact rule. This leads to the final moment of silence and clarity, like it was some sort of revelation.
The movie seems to think it's giving us some magic insight into something but it doesn't set up the fame work for it to land.
Riz does a good job of creating his edgy alternative musician character, although he's essentially a narrow one note kind of person. Highly strung but dealing with it.
Olivia's character is a rich girl with a broken family looking for direction through rock, but we don't really get to know her much to understand her motivations or feelings.
The award winning sound design was good. They went for the muffled tone rather than the more common tinnitus constant ringing and that's probably a good thing as siting through 90 mins of ringing tone wouldn't have been much fun.
It was a well made and acted movie that only half delivered for me.
Firstly it's hearing loss for a working musician, but that soon turns into a recovering addict dealing with a life changing problem, which quickly becomes an addict entering a cult like therapy with no real explanation of their extreme lock in conditions imposed on him. Phone and transport confiscated? Why? Why cut him off from his support community? Why imprison him, he's an ex addict, dealing with a life changing situation. Why punish him for for seeking the advantage of hearing in his life which requires it?
Was it about the sorry sate of medical assistance in America? He had to sell off all his belongings to address his hearing loss.
These questions are never answered and he moves on to the final stage of the movie, reuniting with his girlfriend who unsurprisingly has grown in a different direction during the imposed unreasonable and unexplained no contact rule. This leads to the final moment of silence and clarity, like it was some sort of revelation.
The movie seems to think it's giving us some magic insight into something but it doesn't set up the fame work for it to land.
Riz does a good job of creating his edgy alternative musician character, although he's essentially a narrow one note kind of person. Highly strung but dealing with it.
Olivia's character is a rich girl with a broken family looking for direction through rock, but we don't really get to know her much to understand her motivations or feelings.
The award winning sound design was good. They went for the muffled tone rather than the more common tinnitus constant ringing and that's probably a good thing as siting through 90 mins of ringing tone wouldn't have been much fun.
It was a well made and acted movie that only half delivered for me.