When David Owen moves to New York, he likes everything about the city except the noise. At first even the noise seems to him the throb of urban vitality which makes New York so exciting. Yet gradually this incessant and unnecessary din begins to drive him crazy. So David begins to take arms. He quietly vandalizes cars whose alarms are going off; lets the air out of tyres, leaves notes on the windshield. This has no effect so he goes further – keys the paint job, cracks a taillight, etc. Eventually he is caught and arrested and spends a night in jail. His wife, shocked to learn what he has been doing, worries that this is irrational behaviour. David promises to stop, but he just can’t. The noise is wrong and he alone is prepared to do something about it. So he finds himself arrested again and again. Will David win his battle or will the noise get the better of him?
Film Crew
- : Henry Bean
- : Paul Epstein
- : Paul De Souza
- : Daniel Diamond
- : Seven Arts
- : Henry Bean
- : Andrij Parekh
- : Susan Hoffman
- : Henry Bean
- : Kelly McGehee
- : Phillip Johnston
- : Thomas O'Neill Younkman
- : Julie Carr
- : Alex Alvarez
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When David Owen moves to New York, he likes everything about the city except the noise, which gradually begins to drive him crazy.-
Quibblers will be sure to point out the car alarm problem has gotten considerably better in recent years, though New York auds will have to recalibrate their learned survival immunities after “Noise” resensitizes them to the sounds around them. Oddly enough, Bean ignores one of the greatest noise culprits of recent years, the booming music in restaurants; here, dining establishments are havens of tranquility.Aside from the vicarious thrill of watching car alarms wrenched from their vehicles, pic’s chief pleasure is the easygoing, utterly believable partnership between Robbins and Moynahan, the latter especially well cast.
Jay Weissberg, Variety -
David’s fight-the-system vigilantism and the exasperated reality checks from his wife (Moynahan) feel like dramatic convention grafted over sociological agenda. But as he showed in The Believer (starring Ryan Gosling as a neo-Nazi Jew), Bean uses filmmaking more as a tool for discourse than a vehicle for verisimilitude.
Stephen Garrett, Time Out
