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Basic Info / 基本情報

Synopsis / あらすじ

English Ruben is a heavy metal drummer whose life is defined by the visceral power of sound. When his hearing suddenly vanishes, his world collapses into a terrifying void. Desperate to “fix” his life, he enters a sober community for the deaf run by Joe, a man who believes deafness is not a brokenness to be repaired, but a culture to be embraced. Ruben must choose between a frantic, costly quest to regain his past or the daunting path of accepting a new, silent reality. Sound of Metal is a profound exploration of loss and the transcendent stillness that remains when the noise of the world finally fades away.

日本語 ルーベンは、音の衝撃を糧に生きるヘヴィメタルのドラマーです。しかし、突如訪れた失聴によって、彼の世界は恐怖の空白へと一変します。かつての自分を「修理」しようと足掻く彼は、ジョーという男が運営する聾者のコミュニティに身を寄せます。ジョーは「聾（ろう）は治すべき欠陥ではなく、受け入れるべきアイデンティティである」と説きますが、過去に固執するルーベンは葛藤し、高額な人工内耳手術を追い求めます。『サウンド・オブ・メタル』は、喪失の痛みと、世界の騒音が止んだ後にのみ訪れる「真の静寂」を描いた、魂の再生の物語です。

Cast & Crew / スタッフ・出演

Additional Information / 追加情報

Awards / 受賞歴

• 93rd Academy Awards (2021) – 6 nominations, 2 wins:
  • Best Film Editing – WON (Mikkel E.G. Nielsen)
  • Best Sound – WON (Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés, Philip Bladh)
  • Best Picture – nomination
  • Best Actor – nomination (Riz Ahmed)
  • Best Supporting Actor – nomination (Paul Raci)
  • Best Original Screenplay – nomination (Darius Marder, Abraham Marder)
• 78th Golden Globe Awards (2021) – 2 nominations:
  • Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama – nomination (Riz Ahmed)
  • Best Screenplay – nomination (Darius Marder, Abraham Marder)
• 74th BAFTA Awards (2021) – 4 nominations:
  • Best Actor in a Leading Role – nomination (Riz Ahmed)
  • Best Actor in a Supporting Role – nomination (Paul Raci)
  • Best Original Screenplay – nomination
  • Best Editing – nomination
• Screen Actors Guild Awards (2021) – 1 nomination:
  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role – nomination (Riz Ahmed)
• Independent Spirit Awards (2021) – 3 wins:
  • Best Feature – WON
  • Best Director – WON (Darius Marder)
  • Best Male Lead – WON (Riz Ahmed)

Critical Reception / 批評的評価

• Rotten Tomatoes: 97% (Critics), 93% (Audience)
• Metacritic: 97/100 (Universal Acclaim)
• IMDb: 7.8/10
• Eiga.com（映画.com）: 3.9/5
• Considered one of the finest films of 2020 and a landmark in cinema’s treatment of disability and identity
• Riz Ahmed’s performance described as one of the great physical and psychological achievements in recent American cinema — a performance of extreme presence and controlled disintegration
• Paul Raci — a hearing child of deaf parents, fluent in American Sign Language, and a Vietnam veteran — brought to the role an authority no actor without that background could have provided; his Oscar nomination was widely described as overdue recognition of an extraordinary career
• The sound design by Nicolas Becker — the film’s true co-author — universally praised as a formal and technical revolution: the audience hears the film through Ruben’s ears, experiencing the progressive distortion and eventual silence of his auditory world
• Charlotte Bruus Christensen’s cinematography praised for its physical intimacy and its sensitivity to the visual language of deaf space
• Roger Ebert.com: ★★★★ “A film of devastating precision — Marder and Ahmed have made something genuinely new”
• The New York Times: “An extraordinary film about loss, identity, and the silence inside the noise”
• Variety: “Ahmed gives the performance of the year — a film that earns every one of its silences”
• The Guardian: ★★★★★ “One of the most important films about disability in cinema history”
• The Deaf community’s reception was nuanced: many praised the film’s portrayal of Deaf culture as community and identity rather than tragedy; some noted that Joe’s perspective — implants as betrayal of Deaf culture — represents one position within a genuinely divided community debate, not a universal consensus
• The film’s depiction of cochlear implants was discussed extensively in audiology, otolaryngology, and disability studies — praised for accuracy about both what implants can and cannot deliver
• Widely considered alongside Children of a Lesser God (1986) and The Sound and the Fury as defining films about deafness in American cinema
• The final scene — Ruben removing his processors and sitting in silence — cited as one of the decade’s most profound endings

Box Office Performance / 興行成績

• Format: Amazon Studios — streaming release with limited theatrical
• Theatrical Gross: ~$1.0 million (very limited theatrical run, primarily festival)
• Streaming: Amazon Prime Video (primary release platform)
• Production Budget: ~$6 million (estimated)
• Performance Analysis:
  • Released October 2020 during COVID-19 pandemic — theatrical release effectively impossible
  • Amazon’s streaming platform allowed the film to reach an audience far beyond what theatrical would have permitted
  • TIFF 2019 premiere built strong industry buzz over a year before wide release
  • Six Oscar nominations — including Best Picture — transformed its cultural profile
  • Riz Ahmed’s acting nominations drove significant streaming viewership
  • The film’s sound design Oscar win became a teaching moment: suddenly audiences understood why cinema sound matters
• Streaming Impact:
  • One of Amazon’s most critically successful original films
  • The accessibility of streaming was, for a film about deafness and accessibility, particularly resonant
  • Amazon provided closed captions and audio descriptions — allowing both deaf and blind audiences to engage with the film
  • Introduced Darius Marder and Riz Ahmed to the broadest possible audience
• Awards Season (Pandemic Year):
  • The 93rd Oscars (April 25, 2021) were postponed from their usual February date due to COVID-19
  • Sound of Metal competed against Nomadland (eventual Best Picture winner), The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, and Promising Young Woman
  • Its two wins (Sound, Editing) were the most technically precise recognition of its most technically revolutionary achievements

Related Review / 関連レビュー

🔗 English Review
・[International Cochlear Implant Day] In Silenced World, What to Choose — Answer Found in Silence

🔗 日本語レビュー
・【国際人工内耳の日】聞こえなくなった世界で、何を選ぶのか——静寂の中に見つけた答え