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We saw WHITE NOISE on Netflix. It's an adaptation of the Don Delillo novel but it struck me as being like middle-period Woody Allen meets Philip K Dick. And yeah it transmits the message of the Delillo novel. Adam Driver is really good. Greta Gerwig and Don Cheadle, really good. It gets more Dickian and absurdist in the last act...It fired my brain up. My brain was about to go out but this movie blew on the smoulders and the flames are licking up again. What else do you want?
@JohnShirley2023 I saw this last night. In some ways I quite liked it, but I needed an intermission between the second and third act. The final scene revived what had turned into something of a slog. Having not read the novel, it's impossible to judge if that was direction or source. It's refreshing to see such a challenging film. Not sure I was entirely up to the challenge. Dry-as-a-bone satire one-upped Don't Look Up, and I couldn't help but feel either Adam Driver or the director may have taken some cues from Chevy Chase. It's a stretch, I know.
@JohnShirley2023 To me Don't Look Up had far more nudges and winks. White Noise just sort of leaves you wondering...or left me wondering, at least. It's humor is so dead pan and so dry that it seems easy to take it too seriously. It was refreshing, if at times somewhat tedious. Thank you for your thoughts on the film. It's definitely one that gives you something to talk about afterwards.
@blastingrod I think Don't Look Up was even better and more trenchant. But movie like this might need to be seen more than once.