Alicia I love this movie so much

Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

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BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

capone666 It's All Gone Pete TongAny music that you need to be near-death in order to listen to cannot be that good for you.Mind you, it's not the mollies that are ailing the DJ in this dramedy, well not entirely.Informed by his doctor that he is slowly going deaf, cocksure DJ Frankie Wilde (Paul Kaye) refuses to listen to him, continuing to abuse drugs and carrying on with recording his new album.When he finally bottoms out, Frankie gets help from a lip-reading instructor (Beatriz Batarda) who shows him how to make music through the use of sight and touch.A darkly humored character study of an unlikeable jerk that also happens to be the quintessential EDM DJ movie, this Canadian-made Independent film strikes the perfect balance between goof- ball antics, deep-seated personal issues and a sick soundtrack.On the bright side, as a deaf artist you no longer have to listen criticism anymore.Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

chaos-rampant Several things they tried to do here. One is a Spinal Tap mockumentary only with a dance DJ in place of the band but it's still the same lovable idiocy of an ego that doesn't know how to be a calculating adult. It's fun, an acoustic device knob goes to 11, but this is undercut by something else they tried to do.This is the other movie here, about growth and "finding yourself". The DJ starts to lose his hearing. This leads to him losing touch with reality and being shut in his own self and you can imagine that all this talks about drugs and battling addiction. There's a demon of addiction as an actual demon in a furry costume that he hallucinates about who shovels cocaine in his face. The more abstract understanding about losing touch with reality yields the broader insight however.Now themes of this sort about characters "finding themselves" are usually ordinary and trite, in a general sense anyway. It seems they can happen in a Richard Gere movie where people are pretty and fate benevolent but not in the murk of actual life. There is some of that here, which makes it ordinary, he meets of course the woman who inspires courage so we can have the return to music in a life-affirming way as return to life, but everything about this romance feels like a sleight-of- hand.As typical as all that is, they did something borderline powerful in the images and notions they wove together. He begins to sense rhythm, an apt image shows him perceiving a flamenco dancer's vibrations in a cup he holds, which lets him once more perceive music but now in a subtler way and this leads to a beautiful metaphor - he 'sees' music around him, how life becomes 'music' once you become mindful, the return to life as alertness about things.I was reminded of a few things while watching. In the West we have Spinoza's god as the whole cosmos, Einstein would later groove on this because it could be spun to mean the cosmos science turns up amazing facts about, retaining some of the awe about the complexity, but we're not scientists in a lab, we can only pick up a book about that. The Chinese have what they call the Tao, similar at a glance, a sense of an all-encompassing natural force that pervades everything. What they mean though is the world that perception can encompass, all of the Taoist meditations, there are many and all of them coordinate flow, breath and perception, aim for this, the cultivation of alert awareness and this is a world partygoers and viewers alike can practice.When he returns to the dancefloor, music is no longer an excuse for ego and spazzing. Listening to the silence he finds more than deafness and void, finds the richness of a world that constantly comes to being and vanishes again every moment, the joy of being able to ride that flow, we see frequencies pass through a laptop screen that he has to match, his feet are strapped to vibrating speakers, into the dancing crowd below.It's not different music that he plays (well, he gives a spectacular performance). The people consume it as aimlessly (or as deeply, why not) as before when he was a clowning fool, they're probably as stoned as before. It's about how he learns to sieve through his own cluttered mind to find music in the nothingness.All this is so good in my eyes it deserves its own film, creative life as learning to be mindful of the resonances. I would have this as the Spinal Tap fun and that by the hand of a master fimmaker.

Avid Climber It's All Gone Pete Tong has a incredible dichotomy. You go from rave scenes with large uncontrolled crowd to complete isolation. From incredible super loud techno music to silence. The man looses it all, yet finds something.The settings are captivating, the music is off the wall, the acting on spot, the scenario very interesting, the situation unusual, and the drama gripping. What more can you ask for?Well, you have to like techno music and its usual scene to appreciate fully, but it's not a prerequisite, really. The fall is very human in nature, as is the end. You'll smile, I guaranty it.Take a peak at least, and you'll finish the movie, I'm sure.

james-bennett I adore this film. I rented it expected an adult Kevin and Perry, and was shocked by the themes and humanity this film serves you. The acting is first rate to the extent that you can't imagine anyone else playing any of the major characters. Kaye is nothing short of a revelation, with no hint of this ability beforehand, playing dennis pennis!Then there is the dialogue. There are so many quotes that you take from this film that years later you and friends will still be talking to each other with them. All in all a truly memorable heartwarming experience that is by turns shocking, hilarious, poignant, sickening and marvellous. You'll never look at a badger the same way..........