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Post by Feather Le Plume on Jan 2, 2023 2:28:07 GMT
If you like Catch-22 you'll appreciate White Noise. The dialogue crackles. The wit snaps. I'm about two-thirds through my first viewing and I'm enjoying it so much I had to hit pause and share this. Streaming on Netflix now.
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Post by Billowy Cloud on Jan 2, 2023 3:56:34 GMT
The final scene, especially the end credits sequence, pushes a trite point way too hard, and for whatever reason, the screenwriter chose to deviate from the novel's conclusion but alright. Not as satisfying as I'd expected but still fun getting there.
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Post by Newbie on Jan 2, 2023 17:12:45 GMT
I started White Noise but couldn't finish it and doubt I'll go try to watch the rest. I think most will find it off-putting. Directed by Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story and The Squid and the Whale) and starring his significant other, Greta Gerwig along with Adam Driver and Don Cheadle. Driver plays a college professor of something he calls "Hitler Studies." He's married to Gerwig. Between them they are on their 4th marriage and have one child together and three kids from her previous marriage. Then "a truck full of toxic chemicals crashes into a train, and the accident produces a massive black chemical cloud that hovers in the distance, edging inexorably toward the town. Will it move in and poison everyone? As Jack and his family pile into their Chevy station wagon, evacuating in a miles-long traffic pile-up as portentous as the one in Godard’s “Weekend,” the film, just like that, becomes a metaphorical disaster movie about fear, conspiracy, and the toxicity of consumer products." (from Variety's review) Ah, yeah. You're a better man than me if you made it through the entire 2 hour and 16 minutes.
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