Noise
2007 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
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.
Direction Henry Bean
Cast Tim Robbins · Bridget Moynahan · William Hurt · Margarita Levieva · Gabrielle Brennan · María Ballesteros · William Baldwin · Eric L. Abrams · Ramon Fernandez · Leora Barish · Michael J. Burg · Colleen Camp · Louis Carbonneau · Chuck Cooper · Catherine Curtin · Maryam Myika Day · Joel Diamond · Steve Greenstein · Peggy Gormley · Stephen Adly Guirgis · Viola Harris · Helen Hanft · Ryan Hilliard · Peter Hoffman · Ebony Jo-Ann · Aaron Lohr · David Margulies · Clark Middleton · Keir O'Donnell · Vladimir Skomarovsky · Ivo Velon · Craig Walker · Mark Elliot Wilson · James Yaegashi · Akira Yamaguchi
Soundtrack Phillip Johnston
Screenplay Henry Bean
Cinematography Andrij Parekh
Original title Noise
5.4
1K votes (FilmAffinity)
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