Fletcher Crowe

Superb film. Just has to win the Academy Award for Best Film because it is the best film in years and years. The name of this film is The Sound of Metal, and that says it all. It would be easy enough to say that this film is about a drummer experiencing hearing loss but it is not. No, it is about Everyman not listening. The film opens with Ruben furiously drumming in a frantic ecstasy of wild emotion of heavy metal, thinking he has found the Great Beyond, but has to learn that he has not. Joe, a god figure, patiently explains how to find God with coffee and a pen, but Ruben doesn't listen (literally). A young student softly leads Ruben to experience god in the metal of a child's slide, but again Ruben doesn't listen. Finally, in the very last scene of this phenomenally powerful film Ruben learns what it takes to find god in metal church bells (or without metal church bells). He learns that searching for god in metal does not work. Joe was right all along. We the audience have experienced the greatest lesson that life has to teach, and we ourselves are as uplifted and as transformed as Ruben.

WwhT ever you do, dont miss this film on Netflix