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The Power Of Ruben In The Film The Sound Of Metal

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The honesty that an individual has toward others expresses what they mean or are going through is a hard accomplishment. The accomplishment of being honest with other people is a strength that helps accept the harsh reality of truth in contrast to optimism. In Darius Marder's film The Sound of Metal, the character Ruben has lost his hearing and has been adopted into a deaf community. Ruben has the optimism that a cochlear implant would restore his hearing and allow him to resume his life as a metal drummer, but he soon learns the harsh truth that he won't be able to hear the same.

The honesty that Ruben has towards being able to express what he has done and what has happened to him is a strength that helps him keep his dream alive. Starting …show more content…

We work with them, and they work with us.” Joe says this explaining what the group is. Ruben being put in this community wasn’t to fix him but for him to understand what has been lost and how to live with being deaf. Even though Ruben has the optimism to try to fix his hearing. It was put out before him by Joe saying, “Being deaf isn’t a disability” This quote has significance because it is portraying the image of hearing loss not as a disability but somewhat as a gift. As Ruben progresses his time at the deaf community he starts to learn ASL and understand what he's going through, yet still has thoughts of wanting a Cochlear implant. In the movie, Darius Marder shows images of quiet places with only the sound of nature playing these shots show us the significance of what Joe said about the Palace of God when there's only silence. Once you've been realizing that he still has access to his camper he decides to unplug everything to sell giving him the opportunity once again to chase his dream of being able to hear again. Ruben leaves behind his past as a rocker to try to hear just so that he can play music again. Has Reuben made his decision to sell his possessions to make money to buy the cochlear implant he chooses the hard truth to leave behind friends that he made …show more content…

so after setting himself out on the road he starts to travel towards Lou’s Father's Place. Where he experiences all these familiar sounds again with distorted feedback. As he walks along the road he here Sirens all distorted conversations between people, all sounded distorted. This shows Ruben that he won't ever be able to live the life that he wants to be the same, as he can't hear everything how he remembered it. Ruben's faced with the harsh reality of the truth that he'll never be able to hear the same again. this is shown throughout the last scenes of the movie by him attending a birthday party for Lou’s father. as the conversations between everyone create a lot of commotion making it hard to hear because cochlear implant and not being able to understand questions asked to him. The next day once the party is over he hears his dumbass in the quiet of the house dishes stacked up in the kitchen. he decides to pack up and go for a walk as he starts walking he makes his way into a park listening to the sound of nature and children having fun in the chatter of the young and old. As he goes to sit down on a bench near the side of the road As a bell tower gets struck tomorrow the hour has changed. the ringing coming from the bell tower starts to distort to a point where Ruben gets a sense of Truth once again of understanding what it means to be deaf to have that

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