WHITE NOISE 2022
by
Noah Baumbach
Not all novels are easy to film. The material is so complex, subtle yet cacophonous that it is difficult to make sense of then and translate convincingly on screen. Don DeLillo's novel White Noise certainly falls into that category. It does Noah Baumbach huge credit to locate the absurdist comedy in the writing and somehow make it work on screen. The occasionally banal and commonplace does find its place but it is hard to ignore anyway. Adam Driver, Don Cheadle and Greta Gerwig play their parts convincingly as do the child actors and help us make some sense of White Noise.
Adam plays a niche academic who specializes on Hitler although he speaks no German. Don wants to create similar niche around Elvis and seeks Adam's help to that end. An environmental disaster strikes which forces all of them to flee with their families and spend time in camps. From addiction to deja vu everything finds a place in this mayhem.
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