How important is our senses? We never give much thought to that do we? Until and unless it is taken away from us. Amazon’s next original “Sound of Metal” is all about one of our most important senses, the sense of hearing. Story of a heavy-metal drummer and how he loses his hearing over time and adjusts to life with his new found ability to understand everything in a completely different way. Amazon Prime Video will be releasing the movie on the 4th of December, 2020.
One half of the heavy-metal duo, Reuben is a talented drummer of the band Blackgammon, where his girlfriend Lou is a singer. With his talents and fame come various issues, as a metal drummer is exposed to high intensity sounds. With the increasing ringing sound in his ears, he realises he is losing his hearing ability, as he consults a specialist. His doctor tells him that his ability to hear is going away quickly and he has to preserve whatever is left of it. As a musician he stays dumbstruck and cannot find where his life is headed, he feels like he lost everything and has serious issues handling his new life. Being a former addict to substance abuse, his life starts to get even more difficult.
This leads their manager and girlfriend into checking him in a rehab. But not a rehab where you would have to follow doctor’s order all the time. It is a community, where people come, share and help each other out in the most trivial of times. A community made of deaf people, for the deaf people and by the people. Yeah, it absolutely applies the main laws of democracy too. It shows how a community comes together and works for it. This is where with time; Reuben starts feeling at ease with his lost sense. Even though the movie will focus on a very important subject, one very beautiful thing that it will show is that, “we’re never alone” and this is where changes, one’s will to live and exist comes back.
Starring the Emmy Winning Actor Riz Ahmed and Olivia Cooke in the lead, the movie has already been released in the Toronto International Film Festival and has received major accolades and positive remarks all over. The movie will be distributed by Amazon Studios and released in India on the 4th of December.
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