A particular kind of "fix this!"

[butterflydreaming]

After the ending of Sound of Metal, I cried with a particular flavor of sadness, one I remember feeling after reading a novel called How the Light Gets In. Both stories leave their protagonists in a bleak place, one that actually made me afraid for what happens to them next.

With the book, I did scribble a happy ending epilogue, and in my head it's a true thing, and I feel better.

I don't know what will happen with Ruben, though. I watched the movie last night, and I am still emotional about it right now. I'm trying to think of it as his rock bottom, a place that as an addict, he climbed out of before. The parallel of his former drug use, and his additude about his hearing loss. But the way he has lost absolutely everything -- it crushes me.

Comments

[varina8]

Interesting! I saw the ending as more hopeful. To avoid spoilers, let me say, when he makes the decision to let go of the past and sit with the present moment, I felt he had at last fully entered his new life. In the moment he was feeling the beauty of that new place. Though I don't know what will happen to him but I have faith in his resilience.

[butterflydreaming]

Thank you for that point of view.