Oct 25 2007'Noise' is Perfect Movie for Crazy Dads
As an affluent, successful, but ultimately insane middle-aged man, aren't you sick and tired of how few films are geared specifically toward your unique breed of madness? Me too! Thank heavens Yahoo! has described this new Tim Robbins film that sounds like it really fits the bill:
Have you ever dreamt of smashing up that car in your neighborhood whose burglar alarm has the bad habit of going off in the middle of the night?
Have I ever! I'm full of an unrepentant rage that can barely be contained, and better to smash a car than the delicate skull of a child, right?
"Noise," Bean's provocative second film, casts Tim Robbins as David, an upper-class family man driven insane by New York's loud sounds -- grinding garbage trucks, horns honking, back-up beepers and worst of all, car alarms squealing at all hours.
Heck yeah, I hate those noises! Except you forgot the obnoxiously joyous screams of children. Car alarms are bad too, though!
He becomes so obsessed with noise that he turns into a black-clad vigilante, "The Rectifier," waging his own crusade on those damn alarms shattering his quiet.
'Damn alarms' is right! Now you're speaking my language! If I didn't have this damn 9 to 5, I'd become a vigilante too, and finally take out all these alarms and children and whatever!
After ending in jail and nearly sinking his marriage, he decides to try to go about his fight legally, collecting signatures for a petition which he hopes will get the issue on the ballot at an upcoming council election.The initiative is hugely popular but is blocked by the city's slimy mayor, played by William Hurt, forcing David to resort to an extreme strategy to make his point.
Argh! It is always that slimy mayor stopping guys like me from passing insane bills about ending sound! Damn you, mayor! Damn you!!!
[Says director Bean:] For me, noise becomes a metaphor for power. The noise that I have to listen to, that I have no control over, that invades my house, my ears, my thoughts... in a way that's how our governments are
Oh... Yeah, I meant metaphorically, too! Ha ha, yeah, it would be mad if I really meant all those things I said about noise. I just meant that the government sometimes makes me crazy with how it's always beeping or screaming your name. Ha ha! When does this movie come out, anyway?
Tim Robbins wages crusade against noise in new film [Yahoo!]
Reader Comments
1. Uncle Eccoli - October 25, 2007 1:03 PM
The quoted material sounds more like a joke than your commentary.
2. Mark - October 25, 2007 1:10 PM
I wish I could dispute that.
3. Grace - October 25, 2007 3:11 PM
Sounds exactly like Falling Down with Michael Douglas, except in that movie he was killing people.
4. Hypo11 - October 25, 2007 4:25 PM
Don't stories typically START with the normal person attempting to accomplish their goals with petitions and elections, then getting blocked by the slimy mayor and only THEN becoming a vigilante?
5. brohamulus - October 25, 2007 4:26 PM
This movie sounds like my greatest fantasy.
I called the cops on my neighbors baby. That shut that little fucker up good.
6. Pastafarian - October 27, 2007 4:08 PM
Sound can't exist in a vacuum. Maybe Tim Robbins' character could encase the whole city in a big glass beaker or something and suck out all of the air with some kinda big vacuum thing. Than maybe we wouldn't have to listen to him expound about metaphors for government and the like.
Besides I thought lefty loons like him just loved big government. I guess I was wrong about him. Maybe it was his love for vacuums or something. Or maybe he hates noise maybe. I have no idea.
It's just another Tim Robbins movie I won't see anyway.