Arguably the best movie to reach general audiences in 2020, Darius Marder's Sound of Metal is a film full of surprises. The premise sounds basic on the surface: a drummer in a metal band starts to lose his hearing, but it goes much deeper than you might think. It tries to explore a lot of deep concepts: struggling to accept a reality without your passion, co-dependence, addiction, grief/loss, and a non stop longing for a return to normalcy. Sounds a bit like what many have gone through in 2020 in light of the pandemic and the turbulent political landscape, huh?