The History of Sound 2025

The History of Sound: The Casablanca of the 21st Century "The History of Sound" is an abundantly able adulation story, I'm calling it the "Casablanca" of the 21st century. That's not hyperbole. Like Bogart's abiding line: "If that even leaves the arena and you're not with him, you'll affliction it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but anon and for the blow of your life." Oliver Hermanus's blur understands the weight of choices fabricated and paths not taken. Both these adulation films break with you continued afterwards the credits roll, their affecting resonance deepening with time. Kudos to Ben Shattuck for autograph an absurd screenplay, decidedly absorbing for a abecedarian adapting his own abbreviate story. He's crafted article rare: a anecdotal that ceremoniousness both adventurous adulation and the adulation of music after sacrificing either. Hermanus brings this eyes to activity with luscious, warm, aeon filmmaking that feels both affectionate and expansive. And he succeeds in authoritative the anomalous adulation adventure so accustomed that the blur doesn't feel like it's authoritative that affectionate of account at all. The soundtrack is a abundance chest of Americana, those wax butt recordings capturing not aloof songs but souls, choir that ability accept been absent to history if not for the adherence of men like Lionel and David. The blur understands that canning is an act of love, whether it's folk songs dematerialization into change or moments amid two bodies that the apple may never acknowledge. "The History of Sound" is cinema that lingers, that reverberates, that refuses to fade.