6.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The History of Sound (2025)
The History of Sound (2025)
Overview
In 1917, two young music students attending the Boston Conservatory bond over a mutual love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song-collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Positive
Viewer Rating
6.6
Overview
In 1917, two young music students attending the Boston Conservatory bond over a mutual love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song-collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film is rated as left-leaning due to its central focus on a historical gay romance and its advocacy for the preservation of diverse, often marginalized, American folk traditions, including those of enslaved peoples and communities facing eviction, aligning with progressive values of representation and social justice.
The movie features a predominantly white cast with white male leads, aligning with traditional casting practices in terms of racial and gender diversity. However, its narrative is explicitly centered on a gay male romance, making LGBTQ+ inclusion a core and central theme of the film.
Secondary
The History of Sound portrays a central, decades-spanning gay romance between Lionel and David. Despite its tragic and bittersweet arc, marked by loss and 'forbidden love,' the film depicts their relationship with dignity, tenderness, and emotional depth. The narrative emphasizes the profound worth of their connection, framing obstacles as external forces rather than inherent flaws in their queer identity.
The film *The History of Sound* (2025) does not feature any transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on a romance between two cisgender men, Lionel Worthing and David White, with no depictions of gender transformation or related plot elements. Therefore, the overall portrayal of transsexual characters and themes is rated as N/A.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film adapts Ben Shattuck's short stories. Extra information explicitly states that no characters in the film have an on-screen gender that differs from their established gender in the source material.
The source material for the main characters (Lionel Worthing, David White, Lionel's father) does not explicitly specify their race, only implying a rural American context. The actors cast align with this implied background, and no character was canonically established as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.9
6.3
Critic Ratings
6.8
6.4
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