The Sound of My Voice...Needing to Believe and Strange Things Among Us in a Cynical Age

Sound of My Voice is a strange film that starts out with a couple, a school teacher named Peter and an aspiring writer named Maggie who want to try to be documentary filmmakers.  Their target, a cult, led by an attractive, charismatic woman named Lorna.  She holds court in a non-descript L.A. suburb house and leads her charges in apparently seeking to "reach inside" and find who they truly are, clearing away all those inner obstacles that prevent them from being honest with themselves.  Lorna has done her homework on Peter and Maggie and knows who they are, and to prove their loyalty to the cult, asks Peter to kidnap for her a particular girl who is a student of his.  She does not say why.  But already, we know strange things about her.  Not only does she seem to posess extraordineary insight about people (not that unusual with a cult leader), she also...claims to be a time traveler.  From the future.

Is she? 

We live in a cynical age, but it is a cynicism not true, in that many of the faux cynics do not truly have a bleak view of existence.  They are a combination of fearful, feeling that extraordinary things lurk at the edges but don't wish to embrace, out of fear of looking foolish or being disappointed.  Or there is lazy cynicism, that to accept the idea of something extraordinary means bucking the trend, going against the grain, and even perhaps being put in a position to have to defend such a stance.  Many people don't want to bother and fall into some kind of orthodoxy or other out of sheer unwillingness to confront.

Then, there are the strange things, the strange people.  Is it all lunacy and delusion?  Or do some thing truly define paradigms?

Keep in mind our paradigms are constantly changing.  When some authority or other tells you that they've got it 99 percent figured out...turn the page.

This movie doesn't figure out things for you.  It is up to you.

Best kind of science fiction.