'Sound of Metal' review: Riz Ahmed’s brilliant performance is one for the ages

What's left for Ruben, aside from an audiologist who tells him his ears are shot for good, is a rehab center run by Vietnam vet Joe, powerfully played by Paul Raci , the hearing son of deaf parents. Raci, who works in deaf theater and is fluent in American Sign Language, radiates a tough love that is funny, fierce and award-worthy.

Ruben initially resists Joe's attempt to teach him the value of stillness in silence. For Ruben, spending money he doesn't have for expensive surgery with tinny, clanky results is much preferable to what he sees as an acceptance of defeat. For Joe and others in the non-hearing community, surgery is seen as a betrayal of the value of deafness as a positive that turns a mundane world into something radiant and magnificent.

His tale of a man who must fight his way out of the traps inside his own head emerges as one of the best and most-resonant films of the lockdown era. And Ahmed, who spent months learning drumming and ASL for the film, offers nothing less than total immersion.Such devotion is typical of this outstanding actor, rapper and activist. Born in London to Pakistani parents, Ahmed became the first Muslim to win a lead acting Emmy, for HBO's"The Night Of.

Whether he's having fun as Lena Dunham's sexy, surf instructor on"Girls" or rapping about his alienation from racist England in"The Long Goodbye," he gives everything he's got. In"Sound of Metal," showing Ruben the berserker taking his first tentative steps toward self-knowledge, Ahmed leaves you with the feeling that he can do anything. That's more than a talent, it's an exhilarating gift.

Loved this movie... I love night off too...

Riz Ahmed’s performance was brilliant. The sound editing/ mixing was brilliant. The omission of how much time has passed was brilliant.

Pass.

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