Unlike god-restored "Bohemian Rhapsody", and even different from another god work "Almost Famous", "Sound of Metal" may be the softest and most grounded literary short story about the story of a rock band. The gentle fall of a burst drummer, a temporary pause in a heavy metal syllable, when many rock stars have become legends, when more and more Chinese bands are shuttling through various cities, "Sound of Metal" tells you that the real rock, what makes you exhausted is actually life. The reason is simple:
The drummer was deaf.
Along with it, the rich second generation girlfriend collapsed.
Hysterical night scenes, every crisp and bright morning full of love, if all the branches and branches of the plot fade, in fact, this is a vulgar story of a poor boy and a rich woman, and the life of romantic love falls shows the true story - even if it is two rock children on a national tour, practicing the lifestyle that many people envy. A caravan, a city, two seemingly uninhibited soulmates. Then, the male protagonist is deaf, the female protagonist is crying, the wandering drummer without traffic, and the lover of the wandering drummer without traffic, poor, poor, poor, pointing to a deaf mutual aid society that excludes the outside world, sign language, sign language, sign language, warm community trying to transform the soul of a rock and roll.
The empty house of mutual aid is more or less a metaphor for the heart of a deaf drummer, or it can be seen as a night scene that belongs to every day after the lights are turned on—empty, quiet, full of invisible irritability and uneasiness. The girlfriend signs a new contract, the girlfriend is a rebellious rich woman, and a vicious story begins: the drummer sells everything, installs an artificial cochlea, and goes to the big city to find love and rock. In this mundane story, the unfamiliar language is another kind of "metal sound" other than rock brought by the artificial cochlea.
Coincidentally, I went to a special school in a previous interview, artificial cochlear implants are indeed expensive, and the director used special sound effects to restore another metal sound brought by artificial cochlear implants that is different from rock drums, how to describe it, in the words of a rock drummer, every place has become a rock scene. The world is filled with unreal metallic noises, and the original rock world is twisted and deformed. Coincidentally, the first two days re-watched "The Graduate", and was once again infected by the long "Sound of Silence" in the rainy alley, and it was also coincidental that these two movies were saying that the male protagonist wanted to find true love.
The difference is that Dustin Hoffman completed his self-redemption by snatching marriage, while the whole world is filled with metal sound drummers, as if coming to a virtual world, the other half of the original life, become serious, polite, seemingly friendly, but in fact distant. Giving up everything doesn't necessarily get what you want, the life of rock and roll is full of rational colors, the metallic sound of virtual artificial cochlea, noisy and cold.
Rock kids don't get old, they just drift away.
Rock'n' roll girlfriends don't get old, they drift apart.
Echoing the opening rock performance, it is the ending. The male protagonist sits on a chair in a big city, people come and go, the world through the artificial cochlear implant to bring him, is still the sound of metal, rock enthusiasm has a ironic cold, you can hardly say whether everything is gradually drifting away. A rock singer who plucks the artificial cochlea that was once his hope of finding everything. The sound of metal is completely gone, the classical, simulated world of rock and roll, all gone. At that moment, the rock drummer sitting in a chair became a folk singer. I don't know if you disagree with me, the lyrics of the folk song, hiding a most rock world. And what rock drummers hear is:
ound of silence。
At this time, silence is sound.
Although it is written in a very sensational way, "Sound of Metal" is also destined to be the big accompaniment of this year's Oscars, and compared with "The Girl with a Bright Future", he is also too small, ordinary, no ode to human joy, not the great compassion of life. From this point of view, rock and roll, or folk music, is really just a way of life, a consumption scene of life, and it is difficult to get out of the various traps of life itself. (Jiang Nannan)