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Welcome to The Treatment, I'm Elvis Mitchell.

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Immaturity and impotent rage.

It's a line from the writer-director, Henry Bean's new

movie, noise, but it could apply to many of the characters in other films in deep cover,

for example, or internal affairs, or his debut as a writer-director, the believer. His characters

are often kind of caught in the sort of immaturity and impotent rage, and they seek justice

in the most self-destructive ways. Ient rage. And they seek justice in the most

self-destructive ways. I'm going to have Henry talk about this a little bit. First of all,

Henry, welcome to the show. Thanks very much. And I think when you say impotent rage, you're absolutely

right. You wrote impotent rage. Well, he says, he says, his movie, his wife says to him in the movie, what are you so angry about? And he says, because I'm impotent.

And she, her heart goes out to him.

She's not always, not even that often.

He says, not always sexually, but always, always.

And that's how it is out of that spirit that that film was created.

I was out of the sense of my impotence, my impotence before things that

drove me crazy and I could do nothing about that this movie came. So there's a kind of

autobiographical aspect, this film. Well, it's true that I did some of the things you see in the

movie. First of all, I tell the listeners what the film's about. The film is called noise,

and it is about a man played by Tim Robbins who is being driven crazy by the noise in New York City. And he starts out by doing small things like letting the air out of tires. His alarms are going off or pulling the windshield wipers off their cars, kicking out the headlights. All sorts of little things you can do quickly and get away with.

But one night there's a car that's been going, an alarm that's been going for several hours outside of his building.

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