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'Sound of Metal' Co-Screenwriters Reflect on "Dark Places" That Inspired Film

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The journey to write Amazon's Sound of Metal took well over a decade. But for writer-director Darius Marder and his writing partner and brother, Abraham Marder, that length of time was necessary to tell a "universal story" that explores "something that is pervasively human." The film follows Ruben (Riz Ahmed) and his girlfriend, Lou (Olivia Cooke), who perform as the heavy-metal duo Blackgammon.

Their hopes of making it big are sideswiped when Ruben begins to lose his hearing. Urged by his girlfriend to do so, Ruben enters rehab in a rural deaf community led by Vietnam War veteran and addict Joe (Paul Raci).

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