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Paramount+As a child, the brutal murder of her family made Alexis regain her hearing along with synesthetic abilities. Now as an adult, she finds solace in the sounds of bodily harm. But when she’s told she might lose her hearing again, she escalates her gruesome sound experiments in a quest to compose her masterpiece.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a fresh rating of 66% from 38 critic reviews with an average rating of 6.3/10. The site's consensus reads, "The consistency isn't always smooth, but Sound Of Violence's blend of character study and horror marks writer-director Alex Noyer as an ambitious, visually distinctive filmmaker". The film holds an average score of 45 based on 4 critic reviews on Metacritic, indicating mixed or average review.
It’s an expressionistic visual style from cinematographer Daphne Qin Wu that reminds us ever so slightly of the drug-induced scenes you might find in Euphoria, with its soft neon strobes of purples and blues.What occurs then in Sound of Violence is an alternate narrative that runs alongside the central one. Every butchering carried out by Alexis becomes symbolic of Noyer’s own 808 overkill.
