Noise
Noise
| 03 May 2007 (USA)
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The community reels after an incident on a suburban train. A young cop, beset with doubt and afflicted with tinnitus, is pitched into the chaos that follows this tragic event. He struggles to clear the noises in his head while all around him deal with the after burn of the crime.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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BallWubba

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

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Abbigail Bush

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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Donald Seymour

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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tedg

Somewhere in the rulebook it is alleged to say that in a mystery film things have to make sense. In another rulebook, near the top, is the imperative that films should matter. Fortunately I know which library this filmmaker visits, but YOU will not until you get to the end.Storywise, there are a number of murders and murder attempts. In parallel, we get introduced to a policeman, incidentally assigned to the area that matters so far as the murders. We see him get involvedMeanwhile, overlain on the procedural-mystery, we have a rather adventuresome experiment in untrusted narration. Senses and sense is occluded. It is experimental because it isn't carried the normal way alone. We do have the flashback from the witness as a lie, a visual device. We have other small liars as well, in the story itself. But the notion is carried by sound; what we and key characters hear and do not. Along the way we get some expertly sculpted sound design.It is pretty trilling.Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.

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CineCritic2517

The pros:Very good acting all around and superb directing from writer/director Matthew Saville who manages to keeps the viewer in suspense despite the film's slow progression and meandering screenplay.The negative:The film really only picks up some speed around half way by which time we had already struggled through some hard to follow dialog and failed to make sense of the direction the film was taking. Add to this an ending which felt a little bit tagged on and left me highly dissatisfied.Not really sure what to make of this film, It surely won't get a second viewing any time soon but I wouldn't discourage anyone from seeing it either.6.5/10

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anthonyjlangford

It's late at night. Lavinia (Maia Thomas) waits at an inner Melbourne train station, with her framed graduation picture and lost in her mp3 player. The train pulls up. She walks in. She's the perfect poster card for young women at risk, plugged into her music and oblivious. She has no idea of what she has walked into. Her life is about to irretrievably change.Constable McGahan (Brendan Cowell – Love My Way) is one of the police officers called in, but he never makes it. He passes out on the escalators. He has tinnitus, a persistent ringing in the ears that may or may not signify something more sinister. Either way, his boss won't cop it and punishes him by sending him to the suburban 'caravan' to gather information about this latest, shocking crime.Sounds like the setup for a conventional thriller, but Noise is nothing of the sort. We are pulled into McGahan's world as life aboard the caravan is akin to being in prison. With his tinnitus, it's steadily driving him insane. He has no thought of the case he is supposed to be working on, but instead contemplates his life.Cowell's performance is understated yet mesmerizing as a man whose life is disappearing beneath him, yet he struggles to cling to it. Despite his self absorption, we don't know much about him, which makes his journey a discovery, and all the more fascinating.The real star is director Matthew Saville, whose short feature Roy Hollsdotter Live was equally fresh and contemplative. Here Saville guides sophisticated performances from all the actors (a rarity) as well as his cinematographer, sound designer and composer.Saville's intelligence and depth graces every frame and it won't be long before he's tempted to depart from an Australian industry that can not support him. Let's hope his talent is nurtured, though I suspect he will join the rank and file of a well worn exodus.Noise is a beacon to all filmmakers everywhere, budget challenged or not. It is possible to work with a tried genre and be fresh and cerebral. Easily the best Australian film since Lantana (2001) and a damn good film in any language.

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bradjanet

For me, this was the best Australian film since "Lantana" ... no, I'll revise that and say it's better than "Lantana". The script was brilliantly written, with believable dialogue and characterization, and yet with an eerie, unsettling tension and mystery about it. The acting was very good all round, and in the case of Brendan Cowell, superb. I loved the music score and the moody photography. One of the most outstanding features of this most unusual film was the outstanding sound design. The scene where Brendan Cowell's character tries to drown out the ringing in his ears by making a variety of loud noises is uniquely effective in it's use of sound as an element of a film. You never quite know where this film is going, but when you get there, it's devastating. This film does on a minuscule budget what many big-budget Hollywood blockbusters could never do ... it touches your heart and it makes you use your brain.

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