mmunier I was trying to remember where I had seen Brendan Cowel, sometime ago! Tonight he was in our "Sixty Minutes" Sunday program and I knew this guy had been something special to me. So hit IMDb, and there I soon spotted "NOISE"! I went to all the reviews to see mine as I was sure I wrote one. But there you are I did not, or if I did it's not there. I did like this movie so much that I can't believe I did not reviewed it, well there are plenty of other things I have to live with although they're not what I want them to be either! Back to Noise - I thought it was a fascinating piece of work. You have to let yourself go and enjoy the ride and you find yourself riding with this guy. A very unusual ride that looks like everybody's eventual boring life with it ups and downs till something suddenly rocks the boredom in the most unexpected way. And you're on the middle of it and the high and the low get higher and lower. Please don't take notice of those who did not get it, even if you may not get it yourself. Take the risk be open.... Oh I wish that Yankee did not toss his DVD in the rubbish bin, I would have paid the postage and even would have added an Aussie pie for him to let me have it! But you can't please everybody all the time! Could not rate it because there was no "15" in the rating drop down list - go and see it.

tedg Somewhere in the rulebook it is alleged to say that in a mystery film things have to make sense. In another rulebook, near the top, is the imperative that films should matter. Fortunately I know which library this filmmaker visits, but YOU will not until you get to the end.Storywise, there are a number of murders and murder attempts. In parallel, we get introduced to a policeman, incidentally assigned to the area that matters so far as the murders. We see him get involvedMeanwhile, overlain on the procedural-mystery, we have a rather adventuresome experiment in untrusted narration. Senses and sense is occluded. It is experimental because it isn't carried the normal way alone. We do have the flashback from the witness as a lie, a visual device. We have other small liars as well, in the story itself. But the notion is carried by sound; what we and key characters hear and do not. Along the way we get some expertly sculpted sound design.It is pretty trilling.Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.

Alice Wakefield This was one of those films that, if you are Australian, makes you feel at home in it. A nice change from watching the British murder mysteries on the ABC, the European homicide series' on SBS, or the hour-long American homicide dramas on the commercial channels, all of which seem to compete to horrify the viewer.Horrifying the viewer has its own genre - it's called horror - and *Noise* isn't in it. *Noise* is unmistakably a drama, although the use of sound in the movie does serve to highlight (and overturn) conventional use of sound in cinema. Hence all the awards given for the sound.I loved the main character, particularly his motivation for being a cop. I think I understood his heroism at the end, even though it wasn't spelled out. I wouldn't have minded if all the unknowns had been solved at the end, but as it was, I thoroughly enjoyed the journey. Especially because it involved Nicholas Bell.PS. I think this film aptly portrayed the range of uniformed officers in Australia.

genathan-1 I thought this was really an excellent movie. It was well-written, acted and directed. There was real drama going on here, and you really felt for both the cop who may have a brain tumor and the young girl finding herself in the middle of a bloodbath. While it was a "small" film in the sense that it contained no "stars" and it was clearly shot on a modest budget, I could easily see it being remade into a large, big budget Hollywood production. My sense, though, is that it would lose much of the intimacy and emotional power if such a translation were to occur.It does, by the way, have my favorite curse I have heard in years: "f*ck knuckle."