We’ve watched Sound of Metal a couple of times and recommended/loaned it to others. Brilliant movie. I heard about it in a sort of deafness-awareness context. Then I listened to the director say that it’s “really about addiction.” Central to the movie for me was a spiritual seed planted mid-movie that bursts open in the final sequence. So, a spiritual theme wrapped in an addiction theme wrapped in a deaf-awareness theme? I don’t know, but it’s well worth watching at least once, ideally more.