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Dominican Rep. Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
- Original title
- Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
- Year
- 2005
- Running time
- 96 min.
- Country
Canada- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Documentary
- Music
- Various
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Documentary | Music Documentary
- Synopsis
- Sam Dunn is a 30-year old anthropologist who wrote his graduate thesis on the plight of Guatemalan refugees. Recenly he has decided to study the plight of a different culture, one he has been a part of since he was a 12-year old: the culture of heavy metal. Sam sets out on a global journey to find out why this music has been consistently stereotyped, dismissed and condemned and yet is loved so passionately by its millions of fans. Along the way, Sam explores metals' obsession with some of life's most provacative subjects - sexuality, religion, violence and death - and discovers some things about the culture that even he can't defend. Shot on location in the UK, Germany, Norway, Canada and the US, this documentary is the first of its kind. It is both a defense of a long-misunderstood art form and a window for the outsider into the spectacle that is heavy metal.
- Rankings Position
- Critics' reviews
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"Superbly crafted documentary is strong enough to make believers out of non-metalheads"
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"It'll make you want to dig out your Whitesnake T-shirt. It might even convince Tipper Gore that heavy metal thunder is all in good fun."
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"At once playful and thorough, the documentary is also stacked teased-hair high with wicked performance footage."
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"Metal culture is a giant topic, and Dunn has made an ambitious stab at it, exploring the music's social, religious, and sexual implications."
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"Dunn says he's been defending his choice in music since he was 12, and the film is a carefully organized and thoughtful argument for the merits of metal."
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"As charming as Dunn's kid-in-a-candy-store exploration is at times, it's apparent that his ''anthropological" take on the scene isn't much more than the love letter he always dreamed of writing to his headbanging pals."
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"A documentary that preaches to the converted if ever there was one, but Dunn's enthusiasm for the subject and the range of pretension and humour of his interviewees makes for fun viewing."
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