The Sound and the Fury
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Linas Phillips, Lisa DeLarios
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
When a sound technician bails at the last minute on a no-budget shoot, an aspiring filmmaker drafts his stoned roommate as the replacement. The stand-in proceeds to narrate over an intimate scene, sabotaging the production with cheerful incompetence.
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Movies-about-making-movies are usually self-congratulatory garbage. This one centers the sound guy and lets him ruin everything, which is the only honest version of that story.
A movie about indie filmmaking that picks sound — the most unglamorous crew position — as its instrument of chaos is a clean conceptual joke. Phillips and DeLarios know how to mine the awkwardness of no-budget shoots.
Picking the sound tech as the chaos instrument in a no-budget shoot is the most unglamorous and accurate possible choice — that role detail signals someone who's actually crewed up. Stoned-narration-over-intimate-scene is a clean farce engine.