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Somewhere in the middle of White Noise, Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig and their co-ed movie family fly screaming at the camera in their station wagon, like someone accidentally introduced The Shrill Four on the Road in competition at the London Film Festival. Venice. At least at this point in the new Netflix movie White Noise, it's obvious that it won't be a slavish adaptation of an acclaimed novel.
Instead, Noah Baumbach is filming the 1985 Don DeLillo classic for our crisis-ridden, covid-infected, environmental catastrophe-stricken present. Imagine better and above all more original Don't look up before, with Star Wars actor Adam Driver instead of Leonardo DiCaprio, a satirical reckoning less flat and more Hitler.
White noise throws a cloud of poison into the quiet life of Adam Driver
Years ago, Jack Gladney (Adam Driver) discovered a gap in the market generically named College-on-the-Hill: he was the first to found Hitler Studies in the United States, teaching courses in "Advanced Nazism" and behaves like an ecstatic television preacher in his self-absorbed monologues about National Socialist mass frenzy and sheepdogs. Gladney has commodified the disaster of the XNUMXth century and it is paying off.
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Adam Driver in White Noise
His life could hardly be further from the horror of Nazi reality: he runs a comfortable home with his fourth wife Babette (Greta Gerwig) and the four children they have accumulated in the meantime. If there were not a small and a large misfortune, although it is initially uncertain which of them will take which size: After a freight train accident, a toxic cloud approaches (it sounds bad) and Babette secretly swallows pills (it's not without).
Absurd ideas and a cloud of poison that would please Roland Emmerich
In terms of Disaster Rankings, the Poison Cloud takes the top spot right from the start. It's huge, dazzling, you'd almost expect an alien invasion from Roland Emmerich lurking behind it. Director and writer Noah Baumbach, whose Marriage Story aired in Venice in 2019, relishes its height. Horror film and disaster thriller suddenly melt into the satire of consumerist life. Baumbach directs them so effectively that you'd love to see him direct Moonfall 2 or The Conjuring 7. Well, Conjuring 7 maybe not.
Jack first encounters the cloud as he encounters most things and people: he breaks them down with all that belongs to him. Vocabulary of self-deception given. She won't slip here, not in this well off area. Disasters, according to his logic, always happen to others.
Next, Don't Look Up looks even flatter and more smug
While Do not look between the people, the media, and politics has picked one simple target after another to spice up its all-out end-times attack, White Noise is a satirical miniature about a family that represents the world on the brink. A family that talks constantly (and funny) without saying anything.
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The family at their favorite place: the supermarket
Unlike Netflix's predecessor White Noise Renounces Stupid Cartoons with the character depth of a 280-character tweet. DeLillo's novel simply offers too much material for that. Two highlights: Don Cheadle, who absorbs walking dialogue with delight as Jack Murray's colleague, and the usual wacky Lars Eidinger. I keep silent about his role, but, to quote the poet Miley Cyrus, we can say this: at some point, he hits the film like a wrecking ball and then nothing is the same.
So if you like watching satires that preach to converts and set obvious targets, you better not watch. On the other hand, anyone who wants to see a filmmaker appropriate an auteur's inimitable voice, happily translate it into images somewhere between Tim Burton, Steven Spielberg and Baumbach himself, and quietly update it for the 21st century is better off with white noise.
This Netflix movie, as shown in the previous card game, is complicated. So complicated that he sometimes gets lost in his ideas. But as he looks for the exit, he offers at least that touching Greta Gerwig, of which Babette suffers the real, the much worse catastrophe. She doesn't need a cloud of poison for that. Being human is enough.
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