Steady, unwaverying, and giving structure to it all.Ĭoda is a unique read, fast and intense, and fun, with twists you won't see coming (but will probably want to yell at Ms. And though the action and intensity may be the melody to Coda, the elements that stick in your head the most when you remember the story, Anthem's heart is the backbeat to it all. He is conflicted and flawed, never entirely sure of himself, only that he can't go on as he has. In a world built on absolutes, Anthem is a character drawn in shades of gray. It's a fast read, intense and sometimes violent, but not without nuance or sublety. A cyberpunk-part dystopian, part science fiction-thriller set in futuristic Manhatten, with the requisite gadgetry, romance, and the added benefit of a rockstar? Sign me up. Could their songs incite a rebellion? Could they be an anthem for the revolution the people so desperately need?Ĭoda has a cool-factor unlike anything I've read. It isn't until a friend is killed right in front of him that Anthem begins to wonder if their music is worth something more than the few moments of freedom it allows him and the band. It sweeps me away, floating, until waves of a thousand keyboards break all at once, crashing into my frantic body, tossing me higher, higher, higher. Energy gathers and releases and gathers again. Rainbow sparks tumble down to sizzle on my clothes. It's miraculous here: light and sound and color and shape coalesce around me before exploding into fireworks of bliss. With drumbeat shackles and guitar-string ropes, I'm a willing prisoner. When he's tracking is the only time he feels free, yet it is when he's most chained. He craves the high as much as he despises it. Music created just for the joy of it, an outlet for their rage, and their sorrow, and the sweet thrill of the illicit, and the free.īut even with the pure high playing gives him, he can't escape the addiction the Corp has bred in him. He and four others meet secretly once a week to play music together-real music, without any encoding. It keeps the citizens passive, keeps them dependent-and ensures they don't live long enough to have time to do anything but survive.īut Anthem has a secret. In Anthem's post-war world on the island of Manhatten, the Corp-the nameless, faceless, despotic government-controls everyone through music specially encoded to be as addicting, and mood-altering as possible. Music is quite literally a drug, one as addicting as any narcotic. To Anthem, and the rest of the citizens in The Web, there is no almost. To us, music is as potent as any drug, and almost as addicting. To those-me, and certainly Emma Trevayne, the author of Coda-music has the ability to heighten emotions, to heal, to soothe, to enrige, and excite. But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift for singing and soon finds herself drawn to her duet partner Miles (Walsh-Peelo).Įncouraged by her enthusiastic, tough-love choirmaster (Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she feels to her family and the pursuit of her own dreams.There are some people in the world to whom music is as vital as oxygen. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents (Matlin, Kotsur) and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Durant). Seventeen-year-old Ruby (Jones) is the sole hearing member of a deaf family – a CODA, child of deaf adults. The film currently stands at 95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics calling it sweet, thoughtful, and heartwarming.ĬODA will premiere in theaters and on Apple TV+ on August 13, 2021. Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi, Patrick Wachsberger, and Jérôme Seydoux produced, with Ardavan Safaee and Sarah Borch-Jacobsen executive producing.ĬODA earned the Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast, the Directing Award, the Audience Award, and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, becoming the only film to win all four awards. In addition to Emilia Jones, the cast includes Marlee Matlin, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Daniel Durant, Amy Forsyth, and Kevin Chapman. The new trailer focuses on Ruby (played by Emilia Jones), the only member of her family who isn’t deaf, as she struggles to balance her family’s needs with her dream of attending college. A teenager passionate about singing has difficult decisions to make in Apple’s CODA, the critically acclaimed festival darling from writer/director Siân Heder.
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