It's uplifting, but still incredibly dark and never sentimental.
It's about music, love, losing love, addiction, and, surprisingly enough, language.
The performances are great, and the sound editing is other-wordly.
I also appreciate any movie that "gets" being in a band and the group dynamic of non-solo music creation. I couldn't stand Whiplash for presenting jazz music as a struggle between isolated genius-egos only interested in besting one another. It's a different context here (noise rock, equally improvisational as jazz), but making music with other people is a collaboration above all else, not a race or competition.
This comes shining through, for better or worse, here.
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