According to Mr. Batterberry, "Dinner Rush" is "the first film, to my knowledge, that examines the underworld connections that one has always heard whispers about," he said.
Mr. Reed described Metallica — besides Mr. Hetfield and Mr. Ulrich, it includes the lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, 48, and the bassist Robert Trujillo, 47 — as the high-volume backing band he has always heard in his head.
Ryan says he has always heard music when he watches animation and graphics – "Images have auditory equivalents," he tells me – but this project involves working the other way round: writing the music first, then matching images.
Angel, who has always heard voices in his head, becomes ever more unbalanced and remote from Nene, who leaves their claustrophobic safe house for nocturnal wanderings in wondrously cinematic locales.
What about the traditional hallowed themes one has always heard about, the rootedness, the sense of time and place, the Defeat, the ancient Question: race - the old black-and-white solidarity Faulkner spoke of, the new white guilt and black rage?
I constantly asked, 'Why do you want to do this?' And she would say, 'I want to do something that will help the fellows who get hurt in this war".' She paused, then added, "Rachael has always heard a different drum".
