The Sound of Metal Review

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Dr. Kirk and Humberto review “The Sound of Metal”, which is about a musician who suddenly experiences deafness.

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0:00.0	Burdo, let's talk about the movie The Sound of Metal. What do you say? Let's do it. This is the
0:05.7	Psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and I'm also a
0:09.8	professor. My name is Umberto Kastagnan and I sell hybrid and electric surfboards.
0:16.9	So I'm just going to review the plot and spoiler alert, but it's not really spoilable because
0:22.6	it doesn't really have a plot. So if you don't plan on watching it or if you do plan on watching
0:27.2	it, probably wouldn't ruin it to hear the story. Anyway, so Rubin and Lou are in a band and they are
0:36.1	touring. They're in a RV and they're going across the United States and it's a two-person band.
0:43.3	And Rubin, the drummer, begins to lose his hearing and Rubin gets upset.
0:48.0	Lou, Rubin's girlfriend doesn't know what to do and we learn that he's also in recovery from
0:54.2	addiction. Rubin, who is losing his hearing, enters a home with other deaf people. He doesn't
1:01.4	like it at first, but soon warms up to the others. His mentor tries to get him to accept being
1:11.0	deaf. Like he said, you know, he says things like us deaf people, we don't see being deaf is
1:18.0	something that we need to cure. And you need to accept the fact that you're deaf now. And he
1:23.7	also tries to help him just sit and just be at peace with yourself. Regardless of being deaf or not,
1:31.6	just be at peace. Rubin sneaks out of the home and gets an ocular implant. He gets kicked out of
1:43.7	the home because of his ocular implants. He travels to Paris to find Lou again. He tries to return
1:49.9	to his old life to be with Lou and to be in a band. And he realizes that he can't go back to that old
1:55.8	life. And he, at the very end, turns off his implants and sits quietly. So, Berdo, what is the moral
2:03.6	of this story, first of all? It's a hard one because on the one hand, if I interpret the ending
2:13.2	scene, the way I thought about it was when he was in the home and his mentor was trying to ask him,
2:22.8	hey, all the times that you've been in that room where you're supposed to be writing and essentially
2:27.8	finding calm, did you ever find calm or you're ever at ease or at rest? And then he basically doesn't
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