Fantastic Euphoria

Rating: 10/10 (23 March 2008)

I spent the entire length of this movie overjoyed, but on the edge of my seat. The amazing complexity in which August hears the world is breathtaking. He finds music in the most unexpected places - subway trains running along their tracks, basketballs bouncing on the playground, wheat blowing in the field. Everything he hears is inspiration for a grand symphony in his head, one he doesn't know how to play. Once he touches a guitar for the first time, and then a piano, and after that an organ, his musical thoughts are brought to life. The symphony he composes is an intricate masterpiece that left me with a fantastic sense of euphoria at the end. Never have I felt so exhausted, yet rejuvenated, at the conclusion of a movie.