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Noise

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Original title

Noise

Year

2007

Running time

92 min.

Country

United States

Director

Henry Bean

Screenwriter

Henry Bean

Cast

Music

Phillip Johnston

Cinematography

Andrij Parekh

Producer

Seven Arts Pictures, Fuller Films

Genre

Comedy. Drama | Black Comedy

Synopsis

From the creators of "The Believer", winner of the 2001 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, comes a black comedy about a man caught in the most impossible of conundrums: in love with his hometown, New York City, but driven mad by its noise. Transforming himself into "The Rectifier", David takes on everyone from the schmuck who ignores his own car alarm to the city's most powerful citizen, the Mayor. As his daring grows, New Yorkers rally behind him inspiring David to win this fight by the most ingenious of schemes.

When David Owen moves to New York, he likes everything about the city except the noise. Indeed, at first, even noise seems to him the throb of urban vitality which makes New York so exciting. Yet gradually this incessant and "unnecessary" din begins to drive him crazy. It is not only the recurring intrusions into his thoughts, the distraction from the task at hand, though these are badn enough; worse is the daily recognition thehe can do nothing about it. It comes to seem that the message behind noise, indeed perhaps its chief purpose, is to remind him the he is powerless. And he finds this is intolerable.

So David behings to take arms. He quietly vandalizes cars whose alarms are going off: lets the air out of a tire, leaves a note on the windshield. This, naturally, has no effect, so he goes further: "keys" the paint job, cracks a taillight... Eventually he is caught in the act, arrested, spends a night in jail. His wife, shocked to learn what he has been doing, worries the this is irrational behavoir. David understands her concern, perhaps even shares it, and promisese to stop. But he can't; the noise is "wrong", and it seems that he alone is willing to face this and do something about it. He is arrested again, and then again, finally spending a month in Ricker's Island jail.

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Critics' reviews

"[Noise] starts out powerfully and has some mordantly funny moments (...) the plot grows repetitious (...)"

Claudia Puig: USA Today
"A satisfyingly screwy New York story."

Steven Rea: Philadelphia Inquirer
It's wickedly amusing for a little bit — Robbins and Hurt really get into it — but ultimately the film becomes what it's fighting: just noise."

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"Despite its intriguing premise, the movie is a disappointing misfire."

The Hollywood Reporter
"Robbins plays David with the self-assurance that there's no combination sexier than smart, funny and self-righteously angry."

Carina Chocano: Los Angeles Times
"Amusing but marginal diatribe against aural assault in Manhattan."

Variety Staff: Variety
"'Noise' is never quite as smart as it tries to be. But as summer and its mouth-breathing blockbusters loom large on the horizon, there's something touching about a movie that even tries."

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