Review of Sound of Noise (2010) by Michael W — 06 Dec 2017

This movie is an amazing critique of social standards and institution hierarchies that is so visible to any sort of non popular musician - and yet in the same movie critiques the value of music at all, and validates the dislike of music.

Anarchist values, norm critiquing, and incredible musical insight are what make this movie incredible. As a musician at a school similar to that where the protagonist drummers attended, I understand that the same criticism every music major feels when they attend school is that their major is lesser because it's not often as well a money maker as other, more hailed, professions are, and it's therefore seen as needing some sort of justification as to why you would ever choose to do that - be a music major or go to a music school.

It's those same pressures that music students face that they also subject all music to with a hierarchy of musical validity, namely that classical music is the utmost degree of music, and therefore is the only valid thing.

In the movie the classical bourgeois institution is taken on by the anarchist drummers that understand there should be no hierarchy, and these drummers that so value music as their entire lives, are more able to empathize with the cop that has an extreme distaste for any music, than his own bourgeois, classical loving family.

Unbelievable story, execution, and dynamic. Bravo!