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Having gained free access to Showtime for the whole weekend (plus today), I didn't want to waste all the yummy movies being presented to me... for free! This weekend I watched Hotel Rwanda, Crash, Fever Pitch, Stepford Wives, and I have just finished Noise.
After having viewed the last movie, I raced to the internet to find out what people thought about the film. Not to my surprise, I find that people either hated it or loved it, but not in between. Let's just say I loved it, though it does need some work.
So Noise is about this copy reader named Joyce who moves into her new apartment in New York City (of course it wasn't filmed in New York) who recently got divorced to this man named Elliot. To me, she seemed quiet yet poised and sure of herself, though her friends doesn't seem to have any confidence in her. But what made me mad about her friends is that they don't seem to give her any support whatsoever, except to give her a card to go to this support group for divorced women. So Joyce enjoys her apartment, buying a lone painting to hang on her baby blue wall, but then she soon finds out that her neighbor is a bit on the cuckoo side.
I'm not going to spoil the movie, but let's just say that, although the genre says "suspense," don't expect a Hollywood-type suspense. I wouldn't put this movie in the category of Donnie Darko or the Machinist, but it does make you think. From the beginning of the film, you already sense an eerie feeling surrounding Joyce and it was the same feeling I got from watching A Tale of Two Sisters minus the extreme jump-out-of-your-seat scary factor. What did jump out to me was when the man she befriended downstairs pointed out that Joyce was showing everybody that she's living her life in the edge, and no one likes that because it reminds them how much they're living their lives on the edge. I felt that she actually wasn't showing that she was "living on the edge," it was more like she was keeping herself locked up from everybody else that's why no one really wants to help her and maybe that's why she went crazy.
Well, I guess you'd have to watch the movie, but don't expect Hollywood. If you expect Hollywood, then yes, you'll be disappointed. I think this is a nice conversation movie. Sometimes Hollywood can be oh, so boring...
-Charlene
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