bob the moo Review of In Sound, We Live Forever

In Sound, We Live Forever (2018)

Interesting in early stages but flattens out at the end

[29 August 2020]

The title and the concept drew me in; the film opens over a still scene, but in the sound we have the voices and noises of what appears to be something that already happened - so we see the aftermath while also experiencing the build-up. It is an interesting idea and makes the film feel unusual. When violence comes (and of course it is does in a short billed as a "horror") it seems it hit extra hard for being entirely aural in nature, with the still images contrasting. At some point the sound catches the on-screen action, and at this point it fails to really build on the good idea of the first half, and instead it is much more obvious and straight forward. There is just about enough good will to get you over this though, if you were really into the concept of the first half - but personally I found it quite engaging as a concept, less so as a film in and of itself.