From viral YouTube videos of people getting cochlear implants straight to your scripted film, "Sound of Metal" it's a double entendre about the music genre and the implants' initial impressions on its users.
Technically it sits straight on 21st Century pseudo-realism, with shaky cams and naturalistic conversations. Its cultural underpinnings belong to the new mainstream: identity politics of unthinkable corners, such as the Deaf community. It seems that being deaf is not currently a disability but an entire culture, a position maintained by rich families supporting enveloping institutions as seen in Netflix' reality show "Deaf U". I'm guessing that the rest of the community riding in their coat-tails have no moral quandaries on cashing disability checks though.
There is a smear of guilt over the entire film, our character drums (his drums away) even when being told not to do so, gets his operation despite possible rejection by the Deaf (cult), and has certain shame over his relationship with a girl with rich daddy issues.
It is watchable, Oscarizable and a bit forgettable. Its disservice to a medical achievement that alleviates a significant problem makes it a time capsule of the era of cultural relativity. In short, if we could solve deafness tomorrow it would be immoral not to enforce it.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5363618/
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