Sound of Metal

Sad :( Riz Ahmed does a fabulous job again, being so convincingly pathetic and vulnerable and resentful for his newly acquired disability.

What I kept thinking about whenever I noticed the really effective sound design of this movie was this piece called I am sitting in my room by Alvin Lucifer. I came across it on Tumblr a few weeks ago and somehow managed to listen to all of it (not all at once, though I really think that would be the most cool) and the gradual convergence of the resonant frequencies of the room and the vocals into one ambient beam of acoustics kind of scared the shit out of me.

What this movie did best for me was make very physical the muting and numbing and distorting of sound and how much of a miracle it is that it’s being processed within our head, the intricate bones and fleshy chambers in our ears. I’ll keep thinking about it.