White Noise (2022)

• Year: 2022
• Released: 30 Dec 2022
• Country: United States, United Kingdom
• Adwords: 1 win & 4 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6160448/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/white_noise
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/white-noise
• Available in: 1080p, 720p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
• Runtime: 136 min
• Writer: Noah Baumbach, Don DeLillo
• Director: Noah Baumbach
• Cast: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle
• Keywords: based on novel or book, dysfunctional family, natural disaster, new hampshire, toxic waste,

	6.0/10
	67/100
	7% – Critics
	31% – Audience

White Noise Storyline

At once hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, “White Noise” dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.

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White Noise Movie Reviews

The parts don’t cohere into a whole that works

It’s funny when you encounter a film with so many likeable elements that simply never cohere into something that works. This film reminded me of “I Heart Huckabees” in that sense … I enjoyed all the parts considered in isolation, but the film itself is decidedly less than the sum of it’s parts.

The film is divided into three acts. We’re introduced to star professor of Hitler Studies Adam Driver and his wife Greta Gerwig and their children (almost all from different spouses) in the first act, which gestures at parodying academia without really landing much.

In the middle act, a train crash causes the Airborne Toxic Event … a cloud of poisonous chemicals that descends on town and causes the family to evacuate. This is the most successful part of the film, impressively staging the event like a darkly comedic disaster film.

The final act is … a lot less clear and probably best not spoiled. It deals with our need to distract ourselves from the terrors of life with medicine and consumerism. It descends into talky meandering and is really only saved by a magnificent musical number over the end credits.

There’s really a lot to like. I found it to be intermittently quite funny. The performances are great, especially Don Cheadle as a fellow professor trying to establish a specialization in Elvis Studies. It’s a hugely ambitious film with a unique visual style. I only wish I could say I actually liked it.

Really?

Started watching and the characters just spoke constantly over each other, no need or desire to think about what they were saying, no clue what they were actually saying, no time to process what they were saying. So I put the subtitles on, that might help I thought, nope, still couldn’t keep up, the type of conversation I would find inanely dull in real life and would walk away from. Then after 30 minutes of watching I asked my husband if he had any idea what this film was about, nope he replied. Can we be bothered when we just want to be entertained? Nope. Communication is important in a film, this film finds communication a difficult task. Obviously we turned it off, why waste our time. People state on here that it’s thought provoking, well I disagree and think real life is far more thought provoking and entertaining than a family that cannot communicate clearly.

Garbage masquerading as thought-provoking

First and foremost, this film is misrepresented as “horror”, something it is not. The use of a suspenseful score to accompany a drawn-out mundane scene is not grounds for a horror consideration.

As for the film itself: unbelievably mediocre. The dialogue was non-organic and awkward. Any time something remotely interesting did happen, it was immediately intercepted by awkward conversations and unrelated plot points. A major discussion on death is attempted but the ambiguous dialogue circumvents any meaning from shining through. The film starts with an interesting event of a toxic chemical leak and the societal and familial repercussions-it was intriguing, there was humor, and it was scary at times. Just as it was peaking, it-the cloud of chemicals, and the plot with it-mysteriously disappeared and had no meaningful weight on the film. The ending descended into maintained, boring chaos only punctuated by cheap weirdness and pretentious attempts at character enlightenment and closure.

Overall, this film was a monumental waste of 2 hours. An absurd drama-comedy, at best, weakly grasping for a “thought-provoking” consideration through cheap suspense and a nonsensical, nihilistic storyline.

Don’t get me started on that horrible credits scene…