This Drama Gem with HoTD Star, 97% on RT & 6 Oscar Nods Is a Must-See on Prime Video
It's the movie you can watch while you wait for the next episode of House of the Dragon.
You may have seen British actress Olivia Cooke as Emma Decody in the TV series Bates Motel or in popular horror movies such as The Quiet Ones, Ouija, The Limehouse Golem, but Olivia gained real popularity thanks to her role as Alicent Hightower in House of the Dragon.
However, in addition to TV series and horror films, the actress' career also included a heartbreaking drama that received rave reviews – the film Sound of Metal has a 97% from critics and 90% from viewers on Rotten Tomatoes.
What is Sound of Metal About?
Drummer Ruben and his girlfriend Lou are members of the metal band Blackgammon. Together they travel around America, playing concerts in small venues. During one of their shows, Ruben notices that he can no longer hear the drums, and later all the surrounding sounds.
Doctors give him a disappointing diagnosis: the only way to restore his hearing is to buy expensive implants, which means that in the near future the drummer will have to come to terms with his affliction. To help him cope, Lou sends him to a camp for the deaf, where he learns sign language and is helped to accept his new self.
Sound Metal Won an Oscar for Best Sound
Sound of Metal is a stunning drama and a real acting achievement for Riz Ahmed, who in an ideal world should have won an Oscar for this role. Olivia Cooke has a supporting role, but a very important one: Lou serves as a kind of symbol of a past life that the main character must painfully let go of.
Sound of Metal was nominated for an Oscar in 2021, lost the main award to Nomadland, but won in the Best Sound category.
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And the Oscar was well deserved. The main character loses his hearing, and the audience goes with him. The skillful transitions from loud metal to silence, as well as the large number of sound distortions the main character hears, seem like a separate story.
Sound of Metal is also a representative story. Most of the actors in the movie have hearing disabilities, but in this story they do not ask for pity, they are self-sufficient, they do not live as outcasts, but as a friendly community.