Noise

Synopsis: In long flashbacks, David Owen looks back to when he lived in Manhattan with his wife and baby. The unnecessary noises of the city interrupt his life to the point that he takes a baseball bat to the windshield of cars whose alarms are blaring. After a few arrests, his wife kicks him out. On his own, he learns to avoid arrest and leaves a calling card as "The Rectifier" when he breaks into an offending car. Gruska, an enterprising young reporter, tracks him down. He tells her his story, they become lovers, and she organizes a petition drive for a ballot initiative to ban car alarms. The mayor becomes the Rectifier's bête noire. Can David fight City Hall and win?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Henry Bean
Production: ThinkFilm
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
55
Rotten Tomatoes:
57%
NOT RATED
Year:
2007
92 min
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Oh!

Oh!

Reported disturbance

on the Lilydale train,

XT route, 2-1.

Please repeat, 2-1.

Thank you.

Melbourne East, 818.

Melbourne East, 818.

Melbourne East 818, back.

Say again please, 818.

Your signal's very weak.

Sorry, I'm in a tunnel

and my battery's cactus.

Difficult for me

with the weak signal, 818.

F*** you then.

Melbourne East, 814.

814, check 818, please.

Thank you, 814.

Melbourne East, 818.

Melbourne East, 818.

Melbourne East, 818?

Melbourne East.

Can't you hear?

No, just I...

- What's up?

- Don't know yet.

A disturbance.

Stay there a tick.

Get on the ground!

Get on the f***ing ground!

- I understand that.

Get on the f***ing ground now.

Get on the f***ing

ground now!

he's already gone. It's not me.

- Now!

- You heard him, get down!

- Get down now!

- all the way down.

- Please just listen to me.

- All the way down!

- just listen...

Get all the way down.

All right, put your

hands behind your back.

- Shut the f*** up!

- Cross your legs!

- please!

- All right, I've got her covered.

Shut up, shut up!

Stay down. You don't

move till I say.

- F*** you! He got off!

- Shut up!

Did you hear me?

You stay down

and you don't move.

Shut up!

Just shut up.

He got off!

You gotta tell...

Shut the f*** up!

Try not to play

with it,

And for the next three or

four days, don't get it wet.

This is codeine. The

local will wear off.

These will take the

edge off the pain.

As for the ringing, that

should be gone by tomorrow.

The ringing's

a regular thing.

How do you mean?

Sorry?

What do you mean,

regular?

Like ongoing.

- Before tonight?

- Yep.

How long before?

About 18 months,

on and off.

Same with

the dizzy spells?

Yeah well,

there's been dizziness,

But the blackouts

are new.

Lavinia.

I'm detective Melanie Ryan.

Yeah, but I get to call

you Mel, don't I?

'Cause you're the nice one they

get to talk to people after they...

When they realize

that someone's not even...

I mean, hey, I'm in

a McDonald's uniform.

Don't.

You know, everyone here already

knows how brave you've been.

Hey, don't, hon.

Come on.

- they do. They do.

- So?

So it's okay if you

want to have a cry.

I want my other stuff.

Okay. Okay, good.

Let's do that.

What's your

other stuff?

Well, there's a pink bag

with headphones in it...

Okay.

... And there's a picture

of me that I got from work.

- it's in a frame.

- Okay, look,

What I'll do is

You just stay here and I'll see if

someone can't fetch them for you, okay?

- Where are you?

- 30 seconds away. Just hold on.

- Get out of the f***ing way,

you idiot.

Jesus Christ.

Yeah, you've got the media

all over you like a wet rash.

I know. Hamish is onto it.

- back!

- come on!

You've got some stringers

up on the overpass.

Yeah, I know.

I know.

F*** knows what sort of

footage they're getting.

The underpass

is logjammed.

If you don't need paras

inside the cordon,

They shouldn't be

inside your cordon.

You just have the uniform

inside the cordon, okay?

- yep.

- All right, just a second.

Guys, please.

This is supposed to be a thoroughfare.

Can you keep the area clear, please?

- You there?

- yeah, I'm traveling to you.

- How's the kid?

- Still a bit wobbly.

- I need a description.

- Yeah well, once she's compos mentis.

No, ASAFP.

Listen, she's got some

belongings still in the carriage.

- I think it'd be a good idea...

- of course.

I need an hour before I

can even think about it.

I know we're corrupting your scene.

I haven't even looked

at the scene

And you're talking about removing

items from it... seriously.

Just get her back to the station.

Let her have a tear-up and a lie-down.

See if someone can get

ahold of her parents.

We need to find out

where forensics are.

Lavinia. Get her bag. Get her bag!

Lavie?

Lav, can you hear me?

In the carriage now!

Lav?

Lavinia, can you hear me?

Lav, sweetie.

- Hey!

- Lavinia, can you hear me?

Oh, for f***'s sake, she's

diabetic. Get an ambo.

hon?

McGahan,

is that you?

What are you doing up?

I just got up

to go to the toot.

- Hmm?

- I'm on the toilet.

How was your day?

- All right. How was yours?

- yeah, good.

- Some shithead went postal on the trains.

- Yeah, I heard.

God, it's gonna be

mental tomorrow.

Seven dead, they reckon.

Seven?

I heard eight?

No, there's a girl.

Didn't get

a scratch on her.

- a girl, did you say?

- Mmm.

Hon, a girl?

Imagine what's going

through her head at the moment.

At least

it's not a bullet.

Gra, Jesus,

what happened?

- Nothing. I felt nothing.

- Come here.

- I just fell over.

- Bullshit.

It's all right. It looks a

lot worse than it actually is.

It looks

pretty bad.

No, don't freak out.

It's all right.

- I'm not freaking out.

- You are freaking out.

I'm not. So did you have

to go to the hospital?

No, I didn't have to.

Well, I had

to get one stitch,

- but that's...

- so you went to the hospital?

For five, 10 minutes.

An hour it was done.

Oh, you poor darling.

I'll show you the stitch. It's like

one of those butterfly f***ing...

Ray? Hey, ray!

Take your time.

I'm going to ask you

to look at a group

Of scanned images

of original photographs.

The fact that I'm

showing you these images

Should not influence

your judgment.

You're not obliged

to identify anyone.

Please view each image and

indicate if you can identify

...any person whose image

is displayed herein.

Sorry, no.

Lavinia, Constable Reichelt

has managed to get your things.

There you go, Lavie.

Where's

my picture?

My photo. I had

a framed photo.

- What photograph?

- That's all they gave me.

That had

my name on it.

Oh god,

he knows my name.

- No, he doesn't.

- Oh god, he knows my name.

- Lavinia!

- Oh f***, he knows my name!

- Sh*t! No no no!

- Lavinia, no.

I'm f***ed now. You guys

are fine but I'm f***ed.

Oh f***.

Okay, I'm just gonna

pop this in your ear.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Yes, it's Dr. Milner

here from audiology.

Can I speak to

Dr. Searson please?

You like your work here,

do you, Graham?

sorry?

- You enjoy police work?

It's all right,

most of it.

No, it's good.

And everything's

all right at home?

- Hmm?

- No trouble at home?

No, not really.

What's... Sorry, the young lass

you had in here on open day?

- Caitlin.

- Kate-Lynn, right.

- How's she? Still with the band?

- Yep.

They're rehearsing for the

carols thingy at the moment.

Oh good.

So everything's

all right?

- Hmm?

- Everything's fine?

- Mm-hmm.

- So what's your f***ing problem?

Sorry?

You just told me how

you don't mind the work

And everything's

fine at home.

And I just don't

see that, frankly.

Now I'm gonna put

something to you

'cause I'm interested

in your thoughts on this.

During the course of performing

your duties yesterday evening,

You fell over going

up an escalator

And sadly you bumped your

head while riding an escalator.

Sorry, sir, could I ask

you to sign this?

I'm assuming these

escalators are similar

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Henry Bean

Henry Bean (born 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, film producer, novelist, and actor. Most famous as a screenwriter, Bean wrote the screenplays for Internal Affairs, Deep Cover, Venus Rising, The Believer, Basic Instinct 2 and Noise. The Believer was awarded the dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Festival and the Golden St. George at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival.Bean, who is Jewish, also acted in The Believer, and was a producer on Deep Cover and Noise. He was the director for The Believer and Noise. Bean is also the inspiration for the protagonist of Noise. He was so tired of constant noise around him and his home in New York that he decided to take the law into his own hands. If a car alarm was going off and the owner of the vehicle didn't rectify the situation, Bean would break into the car to disable the offending car alarm. Bean was eventually arrested and jailed. He admits to doing it a few more times since. more…

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