Watching WHITE NOISE on Netflix...

[Mark Kohut]

Someone else on *White Noise* whose every third thought is of death, just
about.

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On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 6:01 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> I watched it last night. It was fairly faithful to the book (I had
> forgotten about the denouement with Mr Gray & the Germanic nuns). But
> DeLillo's dialogue came out a bit stilted and weird, very performative,
> with a whiff of early Woody Allen to the endeavor. I was hoping for a more
> subtle read, to really build up the dread. Instead the dreadful parts were
> more screaming horror than creeping angst.
>
> Also, my memory of the book is that the Airborne Toxic Event is never
> really explained or seen or determined, it's just there, off in the
> distance. I could have done without the dramatic action scene.
>
> I'm not a big fan of Adam Driver (though he was alright as Ben Solo) and I
> thought Don Cheadle (who is a brilliant actor) was miscast as Suskind (he
> might have been a better Gladney, and Driver could have done Suskind well
> enough). That said, the absolute best part of the whole movie was the first
> 10 minutes with Suskind faffing on about the joie de vivre of the American
> car crash scene.
>
> anyway, it was worth the two hours for this longtime DeLillo fan, but it
> joins a (large) pile of "movies that were better as books" in my mind.
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 10:48 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It is an intriguing film, with heavy meta commentary.  All of the
> > characters are creating meta-worlds in their brains, and constantly
> trying
> > to force reality into their comforting meta versions.
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 5:07 AM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I'm loving it.
> > >
> > > The Airborne Toxic Event looks positively eldritch, and the score that
> > > accompanies its full revelation is absolutely perfect.
> > >
> > > In front of the camera, everyone is great in this film. The kids, in
> > > particular, as we already know how great Driver, Gerwig and Cheedle
> are.
> > >
> > > Anyone else watching?
> > >
> > > yer old pal Jerky
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