Stream or Skip? White Noise Review: When The Fear of Death Invades Your Mind

White Noise is an adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel of the same name, stars Adam Driver as Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler studies at the fictional College on the Hill. He raises a family of five with his wife Babette whose growing distraction and memory lapses to have their eldest daughter Denise concerned. It sounds exceptionally pretentious to call a movie a meditation. But it’s a great word to call for the movie. 

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When a toxic airborne event engulfs their town, the Gladney family's world is turned upside down. The Gladneys, along with his coworker and friend Murray, must figure out how to move forward in this new and frightening world where death is as close as a raindrop.
However, in the grand scheme of things, the film isn't about any of these. These incidents are merely the lenses through which White Noise ruminates on the fear of death, the central theme of the film — as well as its source material.

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There are those of us in the world who are constantly thinking about death. It's difficult not to imagine falling down a flight of stairs and breaking your neck, or driving over a bridge without picturing the car careening off the side and into the freezing water. These preoccupations with death have become so common that they have become white noise in our minds.
Each character embodies one approach to answering this question or in some cases, awakening to the existence of such a question. As such, their entire beings are wrapped up in this mind exercise, and those expecting any sense of humanist realism are going to be let down.

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Despite this, the actors imbue each character with such depth of being that you do believe them to be real, even if it's only within the confines of the film — spectres from a fever dream that feel real because of their environment; one is equally as absurd as the other. Driver and Cheadle together ground both of their academics with a vein of self-unaware conviction. This is what makes their satire work, they make you believe in them.
And then the bubble bursts and the spectres vanish and all you're left with is the absurdity of it. With all of this at play, it's hard to expect the film to be anything other than exasperatingly postmodern.

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However, White Noise just about balances this frustration with the deeply intimate study of what it means to be human, through Babette in particular. Gerwig's deadpan yet doe-eyed resilience creates a portrait of a woman that feels like she could be any of us. The attention to detail in the costume and production design is truly immersive and transportive, particularly for anyone who is familiar with the idyllic American college landscape and the overwhelming sensory onslaught of an A&P supermarket.
Of course, there are traces of 1980s Americana in the color and style, but capitalism is one of the cures for our inescapable immortality, so everything has a timeless universality to it. The permanence of materialism.
How much you enjoy White Noise will be determined by your willingness to submit to the constraints of its storytelling world. It is just as valid to not want to do it as it is to fall in love with it. Those who do allow themselves to be transported into this celluloid thought experiment will come out with plenty to talk about, as well as a sense of having witnessed something remarkable, even if it didn't always live.
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