![]() Terry wakes up in the hospital and is told by her mum that Paul didn’t make it. One night Terry and Paul sneak out and go to a Three Days Grace gig (which is painfully 2005) and on the way home, they get hit by a car and Paul dies dead. He follows her around and edits together clips of her singing into her hairbrush and submits the video to the fancy music school. Anyways, Paul is low-key obsessed with his sister. Terry is singing in her room and Paul records her, I assume she is supposed to sound….good? I’m not convinced. He defends his sis and in one scene actually tells her this:Īlso, Paul looks like every lead singer of an ’00s emo band I used to imagine was my boyfriend when I was high school (*cough* still to this day). Thankfully, her brother Paul thinks Terry is a superstar in the making. It’s a rule that all dads in ’00s movies must be irrationally disapproving of their daughter’s dreams. Terry lives in a small town, we know this as a random man is just hanging an American flag for no apparent reason.Īt a family barbecue, Terry says she is excited about a prestigious music school that she applied to and her dad rolls his eyes, butting in that it’s “some music thing in LA,” completely dismissing her. “Call me a dork but I love choir practice!’” she tells a friend we never see again. Then we’re in high school choir class and Terry is singing ‘Joy To The World’ and loving herself sick. Why? I have literally no clue and it is never explained or spoken of again. ![]() The film begins with a black screen and the words, “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy,” a quote from Beethoven. ![]() I Rewatched Raise Your Voice As An Adult & Had An Existential Crisis. Oh boy, I was in for an ~experience~ like no other. I decided that I had to rewatch this movie that I viewed on constant rotation in my youth. This all happens in the first ten minutes of the film. Rotten Tomatoes summarises the film as: “A teenage girl learns that reaching for your dreams isn’t always easy in this heartfelt drama with music.” It is indeed a “heartfelt drama with music” and the storyline follows Terry (Duff), a 16-year-old with aspirations to be singer, whose dream of joining a prestigious music school is called into question after her biggest supporter, her brother, dies in a car accident. ![]()
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