NOISE
Guess I’m putting a little spoiler tag on this one, so if you really wanna see NOISE if you haven’t yet, stop reading here, I guess.
So, just finished watching NOISE, this Tim Robbins movie. I thought I was getting in for a fun, loud, clever comedy about a regular guy who’s sick and tired of the noise going on all around him - a situation I’m thankfully not subject to since my town is so small, but I thought the shtick was pretty good.
The movie was okay. Not really good, but okay. You grow attached to the character David pretty quickly, ‘cause he’s just an aformentioned regular ass guy with a charming way and a weird problem, and you grow to like the other main characters too. And some of the scenes are pretty funny, so the movie as a whole is good for a chuckle, and to annoy you by reminding you of the offending noise surrounding you a lot of the time.
What annoyed me, however, was the movie’s structure. You jump back and forth between scenes, you don’t know what’s the past, what’s the present, what’s an alternate outcome to an occuring situation, and more than the first half was an utterly jumbled editorial mess. If you’re a clever artsy-movie kinda person, you might like it, but for me? It just gets irritating.
Like, what’s the deal with the car thief in the very beginning? We don’t see him again until the half-way point, and I still don’t understand how David knows him. He’s pretty much a pointless character to introduce so elaborately, since he’s basically useless to the plot and to David’s character.
And personally, I think the sex scenes were too many, and while the two first were okay and were meant to establish relations and situations, the third one - the threesome, by the way, hah hah - where they discuss this girl’s pussy, it’s just unnecessary. Especially for a movie like this. There wasn’t even any character development in this scene, since the things they discuss - how being beautiful all over is like being an angel, and the heavenly silence by destroying the beastial noise - is never brought up again. Probably from the pot they smoked? I think it was pot. I wouldn’t discuss how ugly my pussy was unless I’d been smoking pot.
This is just me nitpicking the things I don’t like, but the movie is actually pretty okay. It has flaws, and if you’re like me, the flaws will drive you insane, but if you can look past them and just enjoy the movie, you get a pretty decent picture you’ll probably like.
