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I’d coined this term for myself, “point of hearing,” which is the idea of a cinematic perspective literally through the ears rather than the eyes. How early on did you start integrating post and all the sound work? It had to be baked into the film’s DNA, right?Ībsolutely. I was told it might ruin the film, it’ll make it difficult to sell it and so on, but I felt that if you don’t caption it, it’s like saying to the 50-60 million audience, “You’re not welcome at this movie.” It was a long and quite hard process to do it and make it accessible. There was a lot of industry resistance to using captions in this. She was a cinephile and had fought for open captions in films, as she’d lost cinema. It’s dedicated to my grandmother who went deaf early in life, so my family had dealt with all that. It was, but I began working on this more than 15 years ago. How did you prepare in terms of dealing with the concept of deafness and the deaf community? I assume it was quite a learning curve? It was interesting that you captioned the film. We tried to push the boundaries and to do something very unusual, so I’m thrilled that everyone’s work was recognized. It’s shot on 35mm, and Riz worked for a year on his acting process leading up to it. People might think of it as a small film, but we spent 23 weeks on the sound mix - and that’s just one aspect of it. It’s huge, as this was a very ambitious, audacious, massive undertaking. Your film received six Oscar nominations! How important is that for a film like this? I spoke with Marder about making the film, the importance of sound and the Oscars. The film also marks the film directorial debut of Marder, who co-wrote the script with his brother Abraham, and whose documentary Loot won the Best Documentary Feature prize at the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival.
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But after being welcomed into a community that accepts him just as he is, Ruben has to choose between his equilibrium and the drive to reclaim the life he once knew. His bandmate and girlfriend, Lou (Olivia Cooke), checks the recovering heroin addict into a secluded sober house for the deaf, hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him learn to adapt to his new situation. When a specialist tells him that his condition will rapidly worsen, he thinks his music career - and with it, his life - is over.
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After all, the hyper-intense drama about Ruben (Riz Ahmed), a punk-metal drummer who begins to go deaf, is not exactly a feel-good story full of catchy songs.