Poster of Sound of My Voice

Sound of My Voice

Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director: Zal Batmanglij

Release Date: August 3, 2012

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It is official. I love everything that Brit Marling has worked on, including and especially Sound of My Voice. Marling specializes in movies where characters start at opposite ends of a spectrum then enter an extremely intimate psychological space and emerge profoundly changed and reconciled to whatever tormented them before. I had no idea what Sound of My Voice was about going into the film, which I think helped, and I would not turn down another opportunity to rewatch it to see what else I could notice and conclude now that I have seen it once. Damon Lindelhof wishes he could be as ambiguous and simultaneously satisfying as Sound of My Voice, which could have two or more possibilities as to who Maggie, Brit Marling’s character, is. Maggie is not the main character, which is the main thing that distinguishes Sound of My Voice from Marling’s other creations, The East and Another Earth. Without providing any spoilers, if I was actually in Sound of My Voice, I would never have even met Maggie-I would have failed every test, but Sound of My Voice has done a great job at even making me question what I think of as nourishing and poisoning. I haven’t changed my mind, but I appreciate that it made me question myself. Is it manipulation? Is it freeing?

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