The world is now coming to an end on Netflix in White Noise with Star Wars star Adam Driver and Barbie director Greta Gerwig. Read here why the bestselling adaptation is worth watching.
Last year Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence tried (unsuccessfully) to prepare the world for doom. This year’s Don’t Look Up is called White Noise. Doom also looms in the best-selling adaptation, resulting in some hilarious but also creepy developments. Starring Adam Driver, the Kylo Ren actor from the last Star Wars films.
White Noise on Netflix is an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s best-selling book
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 of “Hitler studies” in a cosy college somewhere in the USA. 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 coming up that could reveal that the alleged Hitler expert doesn’t even speak German. And thirdly, there’s that cloud of poison that keeps coming closer and closer.
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From these basic ingredients Baumbach and his cast develop a playful satire with elements of horror film and disaster thriller.
White Noise premiered in Venice, and at the time this was how I described why the film hits its satirical targets more convincingly than Don’t Look Up:
” Unlike its Netflix predecessor, White Noise eschews dumb caricatures with the character depth of a 280-character tweet. DeLillo’s novel simply offers too much material for that. Two highlights: Don Cheadle, who soaks up the ambling dialogue 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 the same anymore. “
Now everyone:r can get a picture of White Noise. You should definitely watch the full credits, which contain one of the most sophisticated scenes of the film. It also gives you another chance to enjoy the wonderfully quirky sets, reminiscent of Tim Burton films.
