Last year, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence tried (to no avail) to prepare the world for doom. This year’s Don’t Look Up is called White Noise. Even in the bestseller adaptation, there is a threat of demise, which is comical, but also creepy developments result. Starring: Adam Driver, the Kylo Ren actor from the last Star Wars movies.
White Noise on Netflix is an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s bestseller
White Noise by director Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) is based on Don DeLillo’s 1985 bestseller of the same name.
Adam Driver plays Jack Gladney, a Professor for “Hitler Studies” in a cozy college somewhere in the US. Jack has a patchwork family with his fourth wife Babette (Greta Gerwig), four children and several worries: First, Babette is keeping something secret from him. Secondly, there is a conference that could reveal that the alleged Hitler expert does not even speak German. And third, there’s this cloud of poison that’s getting closer and closer.
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From these basic ingredients, Baumbach and his cast develop a playful satire with elements of horror films and disaster thrillers.
White Noise premiered in Venice, and at the time I described why the film meets its satirical goals more convincingly than Don’t Look Up:
In contrast to the Netflix predecessor White Noise dispenses with stupid caricatures with the depth of character of a 280-character tweet. DeLillo’s novel simply offers too much material for that. Two highlights: Don Cheadle, who absorbs the strolling dialogues with relish as Jack’s colleague Murray, and the usual wacky Lars Eidinger. […] At some point he hits the film like a wrecking ball and then nothing is as it was.
Now everyone can get an idea of white noise. You should definitely use the full credits watch, which contains one of the film’s most elaborate scenes. It also gives you another chance to enjoy the beautifully quirky sets reminiscent of Tim Burton movies.
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