Synopsis
A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.
2011 Directed by Zal Batmanglij
A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.
Brit Marling Christopher Denham Nicole Vicius Davenia McFadden Kandice Stroh Richard Wharton Christy Meyers Alvin Lam Constance Wu Matthew Carey Jacob Price David Haley James Urbaniak Annie O'Donnell Laura Leyva Travis Johns Piper Mackenzie Harris Tonita Castro Jack Griffo Kyle Hacker Avery Kristen Pohl Maeve Quinlan
La voix du futur, Звук моего голоса, Sesimin Etkisi, El Sonido de mi Voz, Ο ήχος της φωνής μου, Sunetul vocii mele, שמע את קולי, Dívka z budoucnosti, Звукът на гласа ми, El Sonido De Mi Voz, 사운드 오브 마이 보이스, A Seita Misteriosa, 倾听我的声音, 傾聽我的聲音, Звук мого голосу
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If Brit Marling asked me to join a cult, eat worms and kidnap a child do you think I’d even dare to question her?
Last night, when my sister and I concluded our watch of Sound of My Voice, we agreed it was probably a 3 or 3.5/5 watch. But since the watch, the film has been stewing in my head, preoccupying as much space as it can. As such, I’ve had to bump my rating up from my initial reaction.
Sound of My Voice is a resolutely impressive indie film. An example of what happens when a group of passionate and creative people are given the space to make something they love. A lot of Sound of My Voice comes across as a precursor to the Netflix show The OA. With a lot of familiar territory (for anyone who’s seen the show and…
Part of Dastardly Difficult December: film nr.8
This is a rather interesting study into initiation into a cult and the subsequent slow manipulation of the subjects in it.
At the head of this particular cult is someone who claims to be from the future and the conflict in the story is generated by the two leads who are attempting to go undercover there and unmask this person as a fraud.
We are thrust in the middle of this story and via some clever editing and storytelling we quickly get to know all involved and what's at stake. There is a deliberate slowness to the development of the plot to emphasise the depth of the programming involved in this cult. There…
Brit Marling in a fur coat lighting a cigarette with one hand while holding a bottle of vodka on another and leading a cult is totally what I'm here for.
In the profoundly mystifying Sound of My Voice, eccentric and virtuoso indie actor/writer extraordinaire Brit Marling proves once again that she is a force to be reckoned with. Even though it’s not as ambitious and penetrating as that impressive piece of independent, no-budget filmmaking, 2011’s masterpiece Another Earth, she and director Zal Batmanglij still succeeded in crafting a unique, slow-building, claustrophobic work of art. It’s like a more ambiguous version of Martha Marcy May Marlene cloaked in a nebulous, science fiction inspired domain. This is a mesmerizing thriller set in a hazy and dreamy Los Angeles landscape, brimming with layers of effective shallow focus shots and anchored by a magnetic, overwhelmingly self-assured performance by Marling herself.
At the root of…
This had a good build up and then it came crashing down at the end.. I thought it was going to go in a different direction and I’m not mad at it for that but it just took a left turn that wasn’t developed properly and the end was rushed and ambiguous... I should’ve known it would be like that since the OA was pretty much just like this... I feel like brit marling wants to work on genuinely unique sci-fi projects but they just don’t come together for me... too flakey
🧡 = Personal Affect (Influence or Change in Perspective | Originality)
The manic pixie dream is strong with this one.
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I remember having seen this in theaters when it first came out, and enjoying it a ton more than I did on this rewatch. Brit Marling's (then an unknown actor/writer/producer to me) depiction of the enigmatic character Maggie seemed like an interesting vehicle for the power of faith, influence, and storytelling...
...then I had the misfortune of watching the same-team-produced Netflix series The OA-- itself centered on a very similar premise, and soon realized that plot generally takes a backseat to Marling's self-aggrandizing, messianic figures --always the centerpieces of her projects, disarming and winning over skeptics with heart-over-mind…
Unsatisfying. Not spoiling anything, but the biggest moment is a damn handshake lol also one of the most bland color pallettes I've ever seen. It's not as intriguing as the description would suggest. Probably should avoid this one.
44/100
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"To see her is to believe her."
At this point, I'm convinced that I am a Brit Marling fan first and a human second. She and her collaborators (namely Zal Batmanglij and Mike Cahill) are masters of delivering original, shrewd, and earth-shaking stories despite modest budgetary constrictions. Every one of their projects is memorable and justifiably so.
My very favorite of the Marling collaborations is probably Netflix's The O.A., a cerebral risk-taking tale that is more uncompromising than anything else the streaming service has produced since it branched out into original programming. That this series was cancelled is a true travesty…
Happy New Year everyone!
I loved this movie and I love Britt Marling but the ending left me filled with such anger.