The Beach (2000)
The book 'The Beach' by Alex Garland, made into a film by Danny Boyle in 2000 and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Carlyle has a voice hearing theme.
The Beach follows Richard (DiCaprio) an admittedly brash, young American back-packer who escapes to Thailand to find… something.
Richard is a fairly vague guy. In fact, all he gives us is his name: `…what else do you need to know?'. Is he looking for himself? For Love? What he does find is Daffy (a manic Robert Carlyle). He finds him on the floor of the neighboring hostel room, with his wrists slit – the blood covering the walls and bed in such a fashion as to leave no doubt that the act was committed with purpose (and joy?).
The previous evening, Daffy tells Richard about a beach – a real paradise of mythical beauty. The following morning, Richard finds a map on his door. The character, 'Daffy'(Mr. Duck) appears throughout the rest of the book as a haunting presence. As Richard says 'I wouldn't call it a dream. Nothing with Mr. Duck was like a dream'.
Mr Duck again seems to be a trauma based experience, following as it does the experience of finding Daffy's body. Richard has a number of dialogues with Mr. Duck often concerning, unsurprisingly, death and blood.