Noise: Review By MovieGuyMatt

This film is based around the idea that noise can be an assault. Car alarms are the main focus of the protagonists argument. They are shown to be extremely useless and therefore irrelevant, which makes the people who have them-and allow them to go off for extended lengths of time-to be a$$holes.

I agree. Noise is an everyday part of our existence. There is no escaping it. They made this point abundantly clear in the film when Tim Robbins' character took his family to the country to get a brief respite from the unnerving cacophony of the inner city. This attempt fails of course, and we see that Noise, in and of itself is not at the heart of the issue.

It is very specifically the cause of the noise that is the issue. And the cause of the noise is inconsiderate people who do things-and don't do things-with no thought of how it affects those around them.

In the film this was mostly expressed in people who allow their car alarms to go off for hours at a time. They did, however, make mention of a lot of other things that are extremely annoying and inconsiderate on the part of the person creating the noises. What I really enjoyed was how the writer played heavily on the idea that most people in the world are affected negatively by all these things, but no one does anything about it. People are sheep, they follow regardless of the direction and destination.

Tim Robbins' taking a stand took several forms in this film, and had an interesting arc. He goes from a simple criminal to a person affecting actual change. I really liked the messages in this film, and the performances were very good as well. It's running time was quite short, coming in at only an hour and twenty-four minutes, but it worked well for it.

Everything that needed to be done got done and no time was wasted. I hate comparing films to each other because many times it is very unfair to do so, but the thing that came to mind when watching Noise was Falling Down with the great Michael Douglas. Now don't get me wrong, these films are very different on several levels, but the idea of someone saying, "I am NOT going to sit here and take this anymore" is present in both films. Noise is a much lighter, much more friendly version on that idea, and so, for those of you who are a little more hardcore, Noise isn't going to stir much in you, but even still, it was worth the watch.