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Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Several things they tried to do here. One is a Spinal Tap mockumentary only with a dance DJ in place of the band but it's still the same lovable idiocy of an ego that doesn't know how to be a calculating adult. It's fun, an acoustic device knob goes to 11, but this is undercut by something else they tried to do.This is the other movie here, about growth and "finding yourself". The DJ starts to lose his hearing. This leads to him losing touch with reality and being shut in his own self and you can imagine that all this talks about drugs and battling addiction. There's a demon of addiction as an actual demon in a furry costume that he hallucinates about who shovels cocaine in his face. The more abstract understanding about losing touch with reality yields the broader insight however.Now themes of this sort about characters "finding themselves" are usually ordinary and trite, in a general sense anyway. It seems they can happen in a Richard Gere movie where people are pretty and fate benevolent but not in the murk of actual life. There is some of that here, which makes it ordinary, he meets of course the woman who inspires courage so we can have the return to music in a life-affirming way as return to life, but everything about this romance feels like a sleight-of- hand.As typical as all that is, they did something borderline powerful in the images and notions they wove together. He begins to sense rhythm, an apt image shows him perceiving a flamenco dancer's vibrations in a cup he holds, which lets him once more perceive music but now in a subtler way and this leads to a beautiful metaphor - he 'sees' music around him, how life becomes 'music' once you become mindful, the return to life as alertness about things.I was reminded of a few things while watching. In the West we have Spinoza's god as the whole cosmos, Einstein would later groove on this because it could be spun to mean the cosmos science turns up amazing facts about, retaining some of the awe about the complexity, but we're not scientists in a lab, we can only pick up a book about that. The Chinese have what they call the Tao, similar at a glance, a sense of an all-encompassing natural force that pervades everything. What they mean though is the world that perception can encompass, all of the Taoist meditations, there are many and all of them coordinate flow, breath and perception, aim for this, the cultivation of alert awareness and this is a world partygoers and viewers alike can practice.When he returns to the dancefloor, music is no longer an excuse for ego and spazzing. Listening to the silence he finds more than deafness and void, finds the richness of a world that constantly comes to being and vanishes again every moment, the joy of being able to ride that flow, we see frequencies pass through a laptop screen that he has to match, his feet are strapped to vibrating speakers, into the dancing crowd below.It's not different music that he plays (well, he gives a spectacular performance). The people consume it as aimlessly (or as deeply, why not) as before when he was a clowning fool, they're probably as stoned as before. It's about how he learns to sieve through his own cluttered mind to find music in the nothingness.All this is so good in my eyes it deserves its own film, creative life as learning to be mindful of the resonances. I would have this as the Spinal Tap fun and that by the hand of a master fimmaker.

The first 15 minutes of Frankie are truly obnoxious. I'd spent many a summer in Ibiza during the mid '80s (luckily having a relative who owned a bar over there made it even more fun ;) these days I can do without the loud mouthed coked up idiot type that he plays so astonishingly well.But the inebriated madman at the start of the film is soon changed when his hearing fails and he has to re-evaluate his life and values. Paul Kaye plays this part with such humanity and conviction that it truly astounded me. He scarily managed to convince me that he was Frankie Wilde and that his world had collapsed in the most terrible way possible for a DJ.Shockingly enjoyable, many scenes are laugh out loud funny, gross, moving, honest and truly captures a time when everyone was "on one". Acting of the highest quality by all concerned. Beatrice Batada was breathtakingly beautiful as the deaf teacher who helps Frankie learn how to lip-read. A wonderful romance, comedy, tragedy party film.

I love movies where people do a ton of drugs! This film takes place on the party island of Ibiza and revolves around the life of a DJ who is slowly going deaf. The music is cool even if you aren't into that music scene you will like this movie. For one thing its funny. I laughed out loud several times during this film. The acting is good from everyone. Its a touching story. Its a good movie to watch after getting a buzz. The scenes with the giant hallucination that chases him around are great. The way he dances and freaks out at all the parties made me laugh. I laughed a lot during this movie. It was a well written script. I hope more people get a chance to see this move. Anyone interested in deafness themselves should buy this movie.

Mockumentary or documentary, I do not care much. What I saw was a movie about the dark side of the parties. Parent or child, it's good for You to see this. It's a good movie.I personally was into this lifestyle for a short time. Whatever it's shown on the movie is true. I still remember at 9-10am, when we were into a local cafee for an after-party break with some hot milk/chocolate, there were still dancing kids (teenagers) - as a friend explained - on speed. He said, that some people just do not know when to stop.Now, five years after this and two days ago me and my girlfriend were to see Timo Maas live in a massive party here, in Sofia BULGARIA. We used no drugs, even did not drinked much and the music still so cool. (By the way the party was very cool!)What I personally liked about the movie, is that it showed what happens if a person is not careful. Seeing Your kid once with a joint could not be a big deal, but seeing it on few speeds per night is already scary. Decibels are also something very very important thing to keep in mind. My grandmother progressively loses her hearing, due to illness in her childhood. For me music is one of the important things in my life (I am melomaniac of some kind). I personally tried to imagine what is for a person to not experience this wonder of life, called music, and it scares me. I am not saying, that parties would make You deaf - just one should be careful (not to stand only inches in front of the speakers, as I did sometimes in past).Despite all this, the parties are a great way to feel free of everything, if used properly. For me electronic music and the parties means a lot, because they helped me to overcome some difficulties in my life. Unlike some other music genres, electronic music is in general about love and feeling good, about freeing Your mind. Whoever is interested, the DJs showed at beginning of movie are great starting point for newbies into this genre (especially in my opinion - Paul Van Dyk and Tiesto).Stay cool.