Sound of Falling

generations, as they search for their own identity and way of liberation amid the suffering and horrors of other women around them. These women's loneliness and suffering becomes a ghost of trauma that travels across different timelines and is shared by other women in a similar way. It shows how these things are universal and timeless in the lives of women, no matter what era they are living in. The sound of silence and sorrow echoes through the passages each one of them share. Film is captured in non- linear structure, spread across timelines showcasing vignette of memories and dreamy sequences. All of these are in out of order, tangled, leaving the audience to piece them together and try to make sense of these visuals and stories of women and try to decipher the suffering they are enduring. Most of the visuals feel very eerie and haunting in nature at times. The visuals of the film reminded me of films of Tarkovsky, Bergmann just capturing basic human nature using dreams and memories, still making it very haunting. The film in the first hour may feel overwhelming for some, with seamless inter cuts shifting between timelines and character introductions. But if you invest yourself in this abstract world, it will leave you satisfied. I really loved the Cinematography and screenplay, how the film feels curious all the time, constantly looking out for things for clarity and understanding the horrors happening around them, and looking for tunnel/way out to escape from the dehumanising world. Some of the shots of magic realism will leave you looking for answers, like the final shot of the film. It feels like a claustrophobic and unescapebale world of misery these characters find themselves in, the sound design also very much evokes these emotions very well. Sound falling manages to show how the suffering of all women is the same but just by different hands, it shows how trauma ,grief and pain are passed down to generations and it never fades away and it moulds us into what we become. It looks into the past with fresh and reflective lens and tells women lives in current times are not very different in the four walls compared to women's lives hundred years ago. It's a really unique and experimental meditation on trauma.