Noise (I) (2007) User Reviews

Greater than the sum of its parts

[bohemiafilms · 7/10 · 8 May 2007]

This is a small film, it could very well have been quality television in the vein of "The Surgeon" or "Blue Murder" as opposed to a cinematic piece as I viewed it (Dendy Newtown). The technical aspects - cinematography, score, sound design, production design etc... are all at a high level and what we (Australians), have come to expect from a film of this genre and budget , but no more. The performances are across the board solid, dry and accessible, and it is a pleasant change to see some newish faces as opposed to the usual subjects.. The script/story is nothing particularly outstanding or original and this style of social comment/genre pic subject matter has been covered by many and various other films over the past years.

But! And this is a big but. In the hands of this filmmaker, writer/director Matthew Saville, all these ingredients mold and mesh into something that elevates every element to serve a singular and defining purpose, that purpose being the film in its entirety, its meanings and commentary that lie in the cracks of all these artists' work and their complementary and beautifully orchestrated synergy .

Having seen the film twice in as many days; Noise is a brilliant film and I highly recommend it to anyone who has a love of silent cinematic exploration.

Terrific

[stevecarey-1 · 8/10 · 20 May 2007]

Oh man, what a great film. I enjoyed this so much. You'd be much better not knowing too much about it - but since you're here, you already know a fair bit (and I promise not to tell you any more). This is a 'grower,' one of those quiet, strong movies that not everyone will 'get' or appreciate. To me, it worked in the same way as Trampoline, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine (and indeed Sunshine) and You, Me and Everyone We Know (I think that was its name) work... quirk, waywardness, risk. For it to succeed in working for some of us, almost by definition it's bound to alienate lots of others, too. I'm not surprised that some will say "Huh? Is that it?" But the ways it plays with the notion of noise and not-hearing and hearing something but not the right thing are just tremendous. So three cheers for writer and director Matt Saville. Ditto too for the acting - not a wrong note or bad performance among 'em.

I'm still thinking about this movie a couple of days on... Do yourself a favour, try not to learn any more about this, try not to let my raving set too high an expectation, and get along and see it for yourself. I hope you're one of those who DO get it.

At Last! No heroin addicts.

[Zigster59 · 7/10 · 31 May 2007]

That's right – an Australian drama with no heroin addicts. It is possible and it can still result in high quality piece of cinema.

This isn't to say Noise is a light piece. No, no. It's is a very serious-minded and thoughtfully produced film. The mood is carefully and slowly created and the places where things happen feel real (though I will say there were some overly self-conscious scripted moments that didn't ring true to me). And like life – some of the big questions in this movie go unanswered.

It's a brave thing to do but as an audience member, you realise Noise isn't trying to be a police drama or a murder mystery, though those elements are both there. It's more about how things just happen – people come into your life, events take you over and you can't control any of it, all you can do is deal with the consequences.

Noise is one of those rare films that stays with you for some time after you see it. No car chases, no explosions – just emotional engagement and a place to consider how you're coping with the hijacks and loose cannons in your own life.

A fine film.

[sara_tunny · 18 June 2007]

I was taken by surprise by how good this film was.

Everyone's performance fit perfectly within the world of the film. Naturalistic, but totally involving. Brendan Cowell was beautifully sympathetic in the lead role.

The director (Matthew Saville) should be commended for being able to achieve what he has for his first feature. It's a rare thing to see an Australian film so in control of what it's doing. And so moving by it's finish.

I look forward to seeing it again.

9 out of Ten.

All roads lead to.... where?

[miscreant · 7/10 · 7 July 2007]

After seeing an interview with director Matthew Saville, who seemed as intelligent as any film maker you could care to name, I was interested enough to go out and track this one down. And it doesn't disappoint. Certainly visually it is wonderfully well executed, and the sound is strong too. The dialog is sharp, subtle, and at points hilarious (and supremely Australian).

Unfortunately, the downside is the disjointedness of the plot line. To me it seemed yearning to be free from a plot line as a major source of interest (and focus instead in the pure dialog and landscape - certainly I feel that's where Saville's interest is). But it wasn't. There are two driving plot lines along the whole film and something happens in every scene, even though subplots are not continued, or often resolved. To me the finale was also ultimately quite generic and futile as a point of interest.

Ultimately, the words 'interesting, but not "great"' come to mind, and it fits vaguely into a bucket with several other Australian films of the last 5 years (candy, little fish, look both ways, Japanese story, etc.) in dealing with the same demographic, themes of emptiness and loss, and being willingly obtuse (artistic?) in its presentation, even if this one does have its own thing happening a little outside of that also.

Painstakingly slow

[fanita00 · 6/10 · 5 July 2008]

I like independent movies. I like to see the work of many talented people resulting in a work of art. This piece is one of those. The acting, sound, post, cinematography, story, the entire piece was really good, it is totally worth watching. However, this piece of art tried too hard to suck the audience into its psyche by elongating the scenes to the point of exhaustion. I wonder how many "beats" were in the script. I actually got so bored with the pace of the movie that I decided to get out the ironing board to do something productive with my time while the movie slowly unfolded. So ladies and gents, make sure you bring something to keep you entertained during the unnecessarily long scenes. Chop 15 minutes off the top and you got yourselves a real winner. Still a good little indie.

A very well crafted and subtle film

[romper-2 · 10/10 · 4 May 2007]

I loved this film. It's a subtle, layered and measured work with good performances and a wonderful use of music and sound design. The story is well paced and again I see it in musical terms with the crescendos and diminuendos carefully crafted and motifs re-occurring throughout. I also found it a visual pleasure - well lit and photographed.

For a lot of the time, the soundscape echoes the tinnitus of the lead character. Constable McGann is a man isolated in several senses and the film hovers for the most part, like he does, on the periphery of a horrendous and senseless crime. This isn't really a police procedural, but an exploration of the lives affected by the event - the locals sitting just outside the event horizon and in danger of getting sucked into the vortex.

There's knowledge hidden from us, the audience, and also events and motivations that are hidden from the protagonists - even those directly affected by them and involving them. To that extent, this movie reminds me a lot of Memento.Meaning unfolds and understanding grows as the film progresses, but at the end, you are deliberately left with pieces missing from the jigsaw puzzle. It seems to me that you are meant to be left with a sense of the fragility of society; a sense that there will always be gaps in the way we understand our relationships to others and in the way our lives play out.

I love the way that the movie ends with austere credits rolling over a couple of minutes of silence, before sound in the form of an orchestra creeps back into our perception, instrument by instrument. We share the hero's aural affliction throughout the movie and the silence and re-introduction of sound offers a sense of change and resolution - and maybe hope.

Sharp thriller about isolation, fear and such...

[tcheb · 7/10 · 18 June 2007]

It's been almost a full day since I've seen it and I still don't really know what to think. The movie is Australian so for me it's automatically great, but I'm still struggling to understand some (not to say most) of the movie's elements. The dialogs are as sharp as they get especially between the cop and the killer in the caravan (- What's your name? - It's Mc as in McDonalds and Gahan as in I gahan read the nameplate). The movie also works very well on the psychological level and not just in a Silence of the lambs psycho killer way. I also wish I saw it with subtitles because some of the Aussie slang was just way too much for me.

Music to the Ears.

[lost-in-limbo · 8/10 · 1 February 2008]

Now this is what I call a surprise, and one of the best Australian films to come out in the last couple years. Matthew Saville's magnificently striking, movingly sombre and realistically crafted crime drama "Noise" is quite a neat little package that really does over deliver. We follow that of a self-doubting, and tinnitus afflicted cop McGahan, as he finds himself manning a police van in a suburban community that has just been overwhelmed by a group of vicious murders. The script (within the character's make-up), plus the technical side of the production (sound effects) demonstrates some creative brushes with the whole tinnitus angle. Brendan Conwell's convincing lead performance is nothing more than sensational, in what is a vulnerable turn of coming to terms with the responsibility of his duties and the growing fear of his uncertain health. Maia Thomas' traumatised performance is just as hypnotically good. Saville's lean material is high on mood, blunt and darkly engaging on the gradual build-up of the inner-workings of his characters and environment. The location photography is masterfully shot, and the lighting composition also helps provoke an arresting and brooding atmosphere that shrouds the air. The direction of Saville is casually handled with a prominent rich style, and Bryony Marks' alienating music score never overstays its welcome. Meaningfully top-notch and powerful entertainment.

Decent film somewhat ruined by it's snale's pace and seemingly random ending.

[CineCritic2517 · 6/10 · 18 May 2009]

The pros:

Very good acting all around and superb directing from writer/director Matthew Saville who manages to keeps the viewer in suspense despite the film's slow progression and meandering screenplay.

The negative:

The film really only picks up some speed around half way by which time we had already struggled through some hard to follow dialog and failed to make sense of the direction the film was taking. Add to this an ending which felt a little bit tagged on and left me highly dissatisfied.

Not really sure what to make of this film, It surely won't get a second viewing any time soon but I wouldn't discourage anyone from seeing it either.

6.5/10

Slow, lazy and uninteresting.

[joellilleman · 1/10 · 22 July 2021]

I can't express with words how disappointing this movie is. Nothing happens, I don't care for the characters and there's nothing I can commend the world's stiffest camera for. Ask yourself this: Am I willing to watch a movie where a girl stops talking for 20 seconds for no reason other than to pad out the length of the movie? Do I want to watch a movie so disrespectful towards the viewer it doesn't even care to advance it's plot along or give any incentive to care for it's characters? Do I wish to wait for 2 hours waiting for the movie to start before the screen fades to black and it's over? Can I watch a movie where the director delivers the most lazy and unengaging ending scene? Well, if you don't want that, just watch memento instead. A movie where the condition afflicting the main character actually affects the story in an interesting and creative way.

NOISE: It's the opposite of what you are!

[raiderhayseed · 8/10 · 16 June 2007]

I left the screening of NOISE knowing I had seen a film made with consummate skill and acted superbly, but still somewhat bemused and not sure how I felt about it.

The hero of NOISE is a policeman played by Brendan Cowell with an engaging amalgam of all the best things about those great Antipodean actors Russell Crowe, Colin Friels and David Field. He not only oozes charisma from every pore but is thoroughly believable throughout the film. But then the entire cast put in flawless performances with wonderfully natural ensemble acting. The tarnished reputation of the Victorian Police Force must have been given a makeover by all involved with this film.

So why was my response so muted? Probably because I just did not get it.

It was not until I read Chris Hedge's book, "War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning" a few days later that I gained a foothold on the task of interpreting what might have been going on.

Everyone knows that Freud said that EROS, or sex is the key to understanding most of our actions. But Freud also promulgated an equal and opposite force that affects our behaviour – THANATOS. That is the term that describes the meaning and energizing function that the contemplation of death and suffering gives to lives left empty by a surfeit of the pleasures that are generally associated with the conventional notions of happiness. Not surprisingly, the THANATOS thing never really caught on – it is much more fun thinking about sex.

But Hedges suggests we ignore THANATOS at our peril. I think the hero cop of NOISE is guilty of doing just that. When he suffers from tinnitus, or ringing in his ears, he sees it as a means of getting some stress leave from his duties.

But Matthew Saville's script and direction may well be suggesting that it is a warning sign. It may be a response to the anxiety and stress produced by his failure to acknowledge and engage with the razor thin line between the kind of civilized and compassionate behaviour he is charged with upholding and the exhilarating lust for violence and mayhem the entire population carry around with them in their innermost beings. If you find that notion unconvincing ask yourself why symbolic war games such as football matches are so popular. And why the war and police film genres are such staples of literature, art and cinema. Love and hate, Eros and Thanatos – that's pretty well all that is on offer ever since man began expressing himself.

The hero cop's lover is miffed when she discovers he has hidden his problems from her. But she shows him how to deal with the noises in his head. He should think of the ringing as the opposite of all that he really is. She likens it to the negative yellow, green, cyan that are the opposites of the red, green, blue colours in a photograph. The thanatos as opposed to the eros. She shows him how to nullify the ringing by superimposing a countervailing sound 180 degrees out of phase with the ringing sound – by acknowledging the thanatos and taking steps to combat it.

Hedges sums up that erotic therapy rather neatly...

We are tempted to reduce life to a simple search for happiness. Happiness, however, withers if there is no meaning. The other temptation is to disavow the search for happiness in order to be faithful to that which provides meaning. But to live only for meaning – indifferent to all happiness – makes as fanatic, self-righteous, and cold. It leaves us cut off from our own humanity and the humanity of others. We most hope for grace, for our lives to be sustained by moments of meaning and happiness, both equally worthy of human communion.

The killer in NOISE has found a way to deal with these drives by acts of violence. But the cop is so devoted to avoiding these issues that he does not even recognise the killer when he is talking to him. And he pays the price for his dissembling in the final cataclysmic encounter of the film. But the sustaining support of his lover has changed him. He reveals the true nature of her plight to the sole witness to the killings when no one else will. He has learned to acknowledge and confront the dark aspects of human nature. The ringing in his ears has stopped.

I warmed to it. However, the end left me wanting.

[SmokeyTee · 6/10 · 22 October 2011]

This was one of those films that, at least initially, inspired me to reach for the eject button in frustration.

The main reason for this was the obtuse characters :the Sergeant/boss, the detective, the girlfriend etc. The near victim and witness to a multiple homicide is treated in a manner that was just ridiculous - her rights ignored, no support or sensitivity exhibited by the police this was one of those stupid films that just frustrates from start to finish... it got better.

The photography is expressive: particularly when capturing the flickering, decaying, night-lit scenes of Melbourne.

The sound is interesting but I wasn't really sure that the protagonist was even someone whose experiences we were supposed to privilege when the soundscape became filled with his tinnitus' ringing...

This was a film that could have had many interesting characters but I felt it failed on some human level to empathize with its' subjects. A lone cop (he acts more like a security guard) minding a community outreach "office" in a low rent suburb might have invited all manner of intersecting lives and interesting stories.... Unfortunately this wasn't THAT kind of film, emotionally stark and ending with a rather heavy- handed closure that was unfortunate.

I'd rather it had ended ambiguously (and risked further frustration) than force a redemption or closure upon us. Leave it at that - and make your own mind up.

A huge disappointment

[brianwestlake71 · 3/10 · 12 May 2007]

What an awful film.

After hearing a few good reviews about this film, I went along tonight to the cinema expecting one of those films that Australia is really good at producing - original, quirky, off-centre and endearing.

This movie was just plain stupid.

The characters were superficial, stereotypical and totally uninspiring and unengaging.

The plot although showing some promise at the commencement of the film...became a slow meandering, dull mess.

The film can be summarized by the reaction of the audience at the end of the screening. There was total silence......someone muttering "is that it?".

This film could have been so much better...it is no wonder the Australian film industry is in such a state.

Ear Knowledge

[tedg · 8 January 2010]

Somewhere in the rulebook it is alleged to say that in a mystery film things have to make sense.

In another rulebook, near the top, is the imperative that films should matter. Fortunately I know which library this filmmaker visits, but YOU will not until you get to the end.

Storywise, there are a number of murders and murder attempts. In parallel, we get introduced to a policeman, incidentally assigned to the area that matters so far as the murders. We see him get involved

Meanwhile, overlain on the procedural-mystery, we have a rather adventuresome experiment in untrusted narration. Senses and sense is occluded. It is experimental because it isn't carried the normal way alone. We do have the flashback from the witness as a lie, a visual device. We have other small liars as well, in the story itself. But the notion is carried by sound; what we and key characters hear and do not. Along the way we get some expertly sculpted sound design.

It is pretty trilling.

Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.

Partly pointless but entertaining

[gallagherkellie · 6/10 · 5 February 2022]

I'm not sure what it is about the movie, but even though half of the scenes were pointless and it was a little slow, I still enjoyed it. It wasn't amazing but it was decent and not too long. Some funny parts. I was shocked to discover it was only filmed 15 years ago - it looks like it was filmed in the early 90's! Or was that the point it was going for?

A film for lovers of Australian cinema.

[threeJane · 7/10 · 21 September 2008]

This was one of those films that, if you are Australian, makes you feel at home in it. A nice change from watching the British murder mysteries on the ABC, the European homicide series' on SBS, or the hour-long American homicide dramas on the commercial channels, all of which seem to compete to horrify the viewer.

Horrifying the viewer has its own genre - it's called horror - and *Noise* isn't in it. *Noise* is unmistakably a drama, although the use of sound in the movie does serve to highlight (and overturn) conventional use of sound in cinema. Hence all the awards given for the sound.

I loved the main character, particularly his motivation for being a cop. I think I understood his heroism at the end, even though it wasn't spelled out. I wouldn't have minded if all the unknowns had been solved at the end, but as it was, I thoroughly enjoyed the journey. Especially because it involved Nicholas Bell.

PS. I think this film aptly portrayed the range of uniformed officers in Australia.

Brendan Cowell outstanding in the best Aussie film of 2007.

[bradjanet · 10/10 · 1 December 2007]

For me, this was the best Australian film since "Lantana" ... no, I'll revise that and say it's better than "Lantana". The script was brilliantly written, with believable dialogue and characterization, and yet with an eerie, unsettling tension and mystery about it. The acting was very good all round, and in the case of Brendan Cowell, superb. I loved the music score and the moody photography. One of the most outstanding features of this most unusual film was the outstanding sound design. The scene where Brendan Cowell's character tries to drown out the ringing in his ears by making a variety of loud noises is uniquely effective in it's use of sound as an element of a film. You never quite know where this film is going, but when you get there, it's devastating. This film does on a minuscule budget what many big-budget Hollywood blockbusters could never do ... it touches your heart and it makes you use your brain.

Good effort

[RickManhattan · 6/10 · 5 January 2010]

"Noise" is proof positive you don't need a big budget to make a compelling story with remarkably good production values and fine acting. I don't usually, but in this case I viewed the background "extras" available on the DVD and was impressed by how much the company did with how meager resources. The result is a credit to them. The acting is top-notch, but as others have said the plot is disjointed, doesn't always make sense, and has some loose ends. The script clearly had a hatchet taken to it.

There is also some implausibility and irrelevance, such as why the boss would be angry at him for being sick and what is the importance of the tinnitus after all. Even laid-back Ozzie police officers must cringe at the protagonist receiving hearsay testimony in the trailer without so much as taking positive identification from the people who visit, and the idea of leaving a single officer alone in a location where he/she is vulnerable to assault ... and worse, as we eventually see.

All the faults not withstanding, this is a film worth paying attention to, with good directing and some taut moments that are pretty compelling. The budget was undoubtedly less than the stipend a mediocre Hollywood star would command, so it is a job well done. Finally, the DVD lacks any subtitles, and some of the "Strine" dialect and accent is hard to get the first or even second time around.

Very interesting and very Aussie !!

[kathy886 · 9/10 · 25 June 2007]

I went to the screening not knowing what I was going to see. I thought Noise was very well done and I enjoyed it, as I haven't seen another film like it. I walked out of the movie thinking how lucky I am not to have any problems like that and amazed at people that do have that problem that they can have normal lives.

The movie was a little slow to start with but as the story revealed itself it became a must see what happens one. I especially loved the swearing because that made the characters even more real as that is how most Aussies talk in everyday life. Well the down to earth ones.

I would recommend every one see this movie as it had the Aussie humor down to a tee - Job well done to all the actors and the director.

I look forward to seeing more movies like this made.

Absolute rubbish

[rodney_crute · 2/10 · 22 January 2010]

A previous reviewer actually wrote that this film was the best crime thriller from Australia since "Two Hands. No way. "Two Hands" had Bryan Brown, Heath Ledger and Rose Byrne; a good script, direction and editing. This film was poorly paced and poorly acted. There were too many scenes in which nothing happened to progress the story. The script was unbelievable and the direction was self indulgent (perhaps writers shouldn't direct films of their scripts or perhaps directors shouldn't write scripts for their films); there was no discipline. My wife and I felt no empathy with the characters. Some of the actors playing police officers must have studied acting by watching 1960s Australian cop dramas. Very disappointing.

Best Australian Crime thriller since "Two Hands"

[waterwalker · 9/10 · 8 May 2007]

I thought this movie was exceedingly well written, plotted and acted, without trying to explain everything or tie up everything at the end. The characters were engaging, and the performances convincing.

The cinematography, music, sound effects and other elements of the movie all come together to enhance the way the story unfolds for the viewer.

As is characteristic of "Two Hands" (the film I see as its predecessor in many ways), this movie is able to examine some very painful subjects and situations yet interlace this with moments of genuine humour. You wouldn't think it would work, but somehow it does.

Some viewers may be a teeny bit frustrated by the ending, but I won't say any more than that.

A much better film than the recent "Solo"; I am very interested in any future work that Matthew Saville may do.

kill me before I have to see anymore Australian drama

[jellycup_27 · 3/10 · 21 March 2008]

OK for anyone who has seen this movie please note that the majority of Australians do not speak like they constantly have a blocked nose or use such awful slang. Sure generation Y has uses loads of slang, but we don't usually sound unintelligent, especially since most is used over the Internet. I think we mostly pronounce all our letters. We are also people of substance (at least the people I know are).

But seriously, why does Australian drama always suck?!?!

I left the room after 15 mins unable to stand the stereotyped and BORING characters of the movie. And even though I had the volume turned up i had no idea what the police man (with the ringing ears) and his girlfriend were talking about. I'm like great they are all bogans.

I don't care if it was trying to be realistic... it's always the same. Our TV shows and most of our films are pathetic and VERY Embarrassing.

we do have some OK actors, I'll give them that.

Maybe it's only because I'm young that I can't appreciate this film, but I did see mum rolling her eyes at the characters and their poor excuse of the English language.

Classic cinema with an edge

[rooprect · 8 October 2011]

This film reminds me of classic early Hitchcock films like "Blackmail", "Strangers on a Train" or "Secret Agent". These are films that don't feature a lot of action but instead focus on mood, message, dialogue and the audience's imagination.

I'll omit the customary rant about today's Hollywood action flicks with car chases, explosions, cgi & contrived romances with busty supermodels because you don't need to hear it. Suffice it to say that this film is the opposite of that stuff. Here, in Hitchcockian form, we get a quiet, slow-moving freight train of a film. It sparks your imagination as you work to piece together not just the story but the meaning & symbolism behind everything.

The title of the film refers to an ear condition suffered by the main character. He is plagued by a high pitched whining in his head which could be indicative of a terminal condition or possibly nothing. Similarly, the film focuses around fear and how it plays with our minds... possibly justified or possibly paranoia, but powerful regardless.

The story revolves around a crime, witness protection and an underdog police officer's attempts to deal with it in addition to his own failing life. There is a pervasive feeling of loneliness and disconnection that runs throughout the film, which for some reason reminds me of the Clint Eastwood classic "In the Line of Fire" (about a failed secret service agent trying to wrap his head around an assassination plot.

It's slow paced but powerful. I'd say if you're a fan of Wim Wenders ("Wings of Desire", "Paris Texas", "Million Dollar Hotel") or Takeshi Kitano ("A Scene at the Sea", "Fireworks") or Rebecca Miller ("Angela") you'll probably like this film. It doesn't have a lot of flashy pyrotechnics to hold the attention of the average Hollywood-action-flick-junkie, but if you're looking for a powerful, poetic experience, look no further.

Offbeat beat

[tomsview · 9/10 · 25 February 2014]

Although you might be forgiven for thinking that it would be difficult to come up with something completely new in the police thriller, serial killer genre, this offbeat Australian movie does just that.

The story has a number of strands. Set at Christmas, a uniformed policeman, Constable Graham McGahan (Brendan Cowell) is posted to the ironically named Sunshine, a community where there has been a murder and a mass shooting on a train. His beat is a police caravan, which he mans by himself at night, near the scene of the crimes.

He meets a number of people who seem drawn to his lonely outpost, and although some are dangerous, he doesn't seem to mind the company. McGahan talks late into the night, and shares his philosophies about living, dying, and the meaning of heaven and hell. It is a personal philosophy, and its importance becomes apparent in the movie's final scene.

A woman, Lavinia Smart (Maia Thomas) who survived the killings, now fears that the killer will come after her. Diabetic and scared, we feel her anguish. Although the murderer is seen early on, a number of the characters look similar, especially at night, adding to the sense of unease.

Early in the movie McGahan has an accident, and for the rest of the movie suffers from increasing tinnitus– ringing in the ears – fortunately, the condition is cured at a critical moment.

McGahan seems a diffident sort of policeman, a little scruffy with a slightly abrasive personality. He lives with a policewoman, and in one scene they share some recreational grass together. He gives the impression that he is not really on an upwardly mobile career path. His main concern seems to be the unfairness he feels at not receiving sick leave, although he more than fulfills his duty before the end.

Melbourne makes an interesting location. Set out in a grid, the city offers great perspectives down long flat streets especially at night. However, there are no mindless car chases down those streets, and the one shootout in the film demonstrates how your life can depend on your ability to reload a weapon with trembling hands.

The tension just keeps building in this unusual movie. The ingredients are similar to many films of the genre but it's the way they are mixed together that makes "Noise" different.