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'Sound of Metal' (Top inset: Darius Marder; bottom inset: Abraham Marder.) Brothers Darius and Abraham Marder share how real-life hardships breathed life into Riz Ahmed's Ruben, Olivia Cooke's Lou and Paul Raci's Joe: "It was always important that this story is universal. … It's really about something that is pervasively human." The journey to write Amazon's Sound of Metaltook well over a decade. But for writer-director Darius Marder and his writing partner and brother, Abraham Marder, that length of time was necessary to tell a "universal story" that explores "something that is pervasively human." The film follows Ruben (Riz Ahmed) and his girlfriend, Lou (Olivia Cooke), who perform as the heavy-metal duo Blackgammon. Their hopes of making it big are sideswiped when Ruben begins to lose his hearing. Urged by his girlfriend to do so, Ruben enters rehab in a rural deaf community led by Vietnam War veteran and addict Joe (Paul Raci). The drummer struggles between accepting his hearing loss and raising enough money to pay for cochlear implant surgery so that he can hear again.
CinemaBlend Darius Marder's 2020 drama Sound of Metal is getting a great deal of praise as of late, and it's not just because of the movie's gripping story about a drummer in a metal two-piece coming to terms with his sudden and unexplained hearing loss. The director and cast, which is led by Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, and Paul Raci, provide great representation of the deaf and underground music communities with a level of detail and care that is rarely seen in a major motion picture. CinemaBlend has previously covered the movie's portrayal of deaf people and how the film's leads prepared for those early musical performances, but another thing I noticed on a recent watch was the great band tee shirts worn throughout.