A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound

I got this from drama The door in the floor, in which the male charactor Ted read his daughter the story named A sound like someone trying not to make a sound. He is a children book author,and an artist. His marriage was in shambles after his two sons were killed in an accident that caused his wife Marion overwhelmingly depressed. He constantly slept some women he invited home as models.Meanwhile Marion had an affair with his assistant whom he hired mostly to drive for him.

This movie catches me first from the quote of this sentence. I like all message-implied sentence. A sound like someone trying not to make a sound. Well, what you get? That already turns on my imagination on some sneaker maybe just a cautious person, some tip-toe steps, un-latched door, something unexpected is happening......


Yes, in this movie, something happened as expected. Ted's wife left home in the end, taking away all the pictures of their sons.Those pictures were supposed to be all the memory for the only kid left in this family,their young daugter,to have and remeber her passed-away brothers.

And one day,during his routine messy daily life,the mental-distorted artist suddenly jumped himself into the door in the floor of his painting room. What happened? No idea, but that ends the story.

It turns out that there does exist a children book with this name, as I searched. This story itself doesn't allure me as much as its beatiful scene set, the color of the sea, the sound of waves, the house build in shingles, most of all, the lights the director use to adjust the mood and tune. It natually brings out sad-some, awkward-some,desparate-some, maybe lousy-some air. But I think that is the way to make this movie beautiful.

It sounds like it was set at somewhere close to where I live. It is in long island. And the story was based on a best-selling novel named A widow for one year by John Irving.