Sound of Metal (2020)
Directed by Darius Marder
Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him adapt to his new life. After being welcomed and accepted just as he is, Ruben must choose between his new normal and the life he once knew.
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This time, he blends the hungry drummer of Miles Teller in “Whiplash” (2014) and the bruised loner of Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler” (2008), searching for meaning amid the detached depression of “Why me?”
Decir que El sonido del metal es la mejor película sobre un baterista desde Whiplash (Demian Chazelle, 2014) no es el mejor halago que se puede arrojar a la muy notable opera prima de Darius Marder (co-escribió el guión de The Place Beyond the Pines para Derek Ciafrance, quien aquí recibe un crédito por la historia).
The film was shot mostly here, on the North Shore, and has that same somber, gritty texture that “Manchester by the Sea” (2016) registered.
In terms of realism, Sound Of Metal is the best depiction of touring life since Green Room , portraying the movie’s metalheads as laid-back jokesters in threadbare T-shirts whose intensity mostly manifests on stage.