Film Review: Symphony

22nd July 2013

By DeeDee Spears.

Now and then you get to watch a film that sits with you because you are able to take so many things from it. This is why I rather enjoyed watching Symphony. I found this film extremely interesting because the subject matter is not really a topic that I have come across in a film before. Symphony in a nutshell is about an obsessed musician who feels he has to mutilate himself in order to to bring a sense of worth to an album he is composing ( I’m old school so I reckon you gotta play an instrument to be a musician not do shit on Pro Tools…but hey that’s just me, although I do go online for gigs to a Concert Tickets Portal) which he believes will be his gift to the world and become his everlasting legacy.

You could probably take a few plots out of this film. You could go with the story of the self mutilating sadist, the tortured genius whose gift consumes him to the point of self destruction or the misfiring artist who wonders down a path of insanity. Either way this film is intriguing none the less. The atmospheric tones of this film do enhance the story, due to the constant feel of woe, isolation and obsession. The small cast in this do well taking into account the limited dialogue they had although I did find the “Old Man” character rather annoying and a waste screen time in comparison to “The Musician” and “The Girlfriend”.

Being a big fan of “blues” music this film won points with me for “The Musicians” constant references to Robert Johnson whose self destructive passions are well documented which brings us back to the core theme of the film (very clever).Symphony in my mind is a very Cerebral film which I enjoyed because being a Actor/Writer I can relate to few of the issues that “The Musician” deals with (just not to those extremes I might add) but yes you probably will take a few things away from this film.

So if you feel like watching a film that’s gonna get your mind ticking over give this one a try. I shall definitely watch the next film Michael Lapointe directs.

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