what noise fail to do be get u to understand it character . tim robbins play an obsessive new yorker who can not deal with the obtrusive noise of the city any long and particularly car alarm . it an odd idea for a film and which have about as much creative credibility a death wish . it be clever at point while particularly a scene in which our hero be try to read through hagel and i be too stupid to be understand this . he read and reread a paragraph in confusion and we read it and do not get it either . just then a car alarm go off . throughout the movie be constant interference of alarm and city noise . though and all in all it do little to help u understand our hero and who allow this all to ruin his marriage and get distract with side plot instead of dig deeper into his persona . the film make itself be too oblivious to notice it own sound problem and shoddy editing and and visible boom mike . no and noise isn not all bad . william hurt be at least colorful . at least the end doesn not fall flat . overall it drive home a logistical point and one you haven not probably think of . at least i hadn not . though all in all and ninety minute long and it couldn not have end sooner . the story drag on and seem to be lose as soon a it start . this be another one of those movie that you might see at a film festival and but probably would not get pick up for distribution . check it out on dvd if youre really partial to someone involve in the project . otherwise skip it .