Music is a hard film to describe my feelings about. It sort of doesn't really have a good plot that you can describe straight up. If you even look at the description it starts with a story about Zu.

Millie and Music live together, with Music's routine the same every day. She is a non-verbal autistic young woman who has headphones to help with sensory processing. She goes for a walk every day outside in her neighbourhood - which I found quite unsettling as they let her go out by herself unsupervised practically, plus she doesn't have a care worker. One morning, the landlord comes to the apartment to find that Millie has died and Music is having a behaviour due to stress from a change in her routine. The movie is laced with musical numbers that are so bright and colourful and also really interesting (loved the costumes) but the lyrics are so on the nose, there is no deeper meaning. Lines such as "I hope my body listens to me today" or "Inside my head I express myself" were quite unpleasant for me to listen to, when describing a person with autism. I doubt that Sia did much research into the autism spectrum or how people with autism live.

The most jarring thing about the musical numbers is that once they end, the scene has completely changed and they represent a passage in time between two scenes! So you are dropped again into a completely different storyline. A lot of the side characters are given developmental arcs, but they are only to show how good they are, before they are cruelly deposed by the nonsensical story. I thought this movie would be about Music, but as the characters are developed, it actually turns into a love story between Zu and Ebo.

Zu's entire goal is to save money for Costa Rica and leave Music in a care facility. Her cruel and blase treatment of Music really puts Ebo off, but somehow he still seems to be falling for her. I felt disgusted by Zu and never really felt like she cared about Music. She's honestly really selfish and immature - Ebo even describes her as having dark girl vibes.

Particularly I want to mention how Music is used as a tool to prop up the neurotypical characters and improve them. Even at the end, [spoiler]Zu still tries to take her to care facility[/spoiler] and then says to Ebo after crashing his brother's wedding - "I couldn't give her away!" as if she was a possession.

Somewhere on the scale from barely acceptable to disgusting.