White Noise

White Noise remains unadaptable.

Despite the timely release as its beneficial leverage, it’s clearly a disappointing step-back for Noah Baumbach’s faltered ambition towards a supposedly challenging material buoyed thematically on a simplistic note against the soulless, mostly unfunny absurdism that lost its mysterious edge besides Adam Driver’s actual efforts when seeking something reasonable amidst the senseless chaos. (C)

Só não é pior porque temos boas atuações, mas o roteiro é muito inconstante e não leva a lugar nenhum. Pensamos que é um drama familiar, pode até ser, pensamos que é uma crítica social e política, pode até ser, pensamos ser um filme de terror, pode até ser, e com isso, lá se foi 2h e não se chegou a nada.

The novel attempts to capture the banality of suburban life and, to a degree, succeeds. I don't think it's a great novel or a great film, but it's a decent novel and perhaps an even better film. We enjoyed the music video in the grocery store at the end. That was a lot of fun.

It was enjoyable, even if the movie's deeper meaning gets lost in the quirkiness.

...Its something. Has some very good humor and some really good plot points, but it can feel like a slog. Watch it on a 8 hour flight.

White Noise: This is a bit of a weird film. It's part disaster movie, part period piece, with pseudo-academic overtones and yet it's got box office star Adam Driver. Driver looks somewhat like Alan Partridge, but is the best thing in the film. What didn't work was Greta Gerwig, who is a terrible actress and is acted off the screen by some of the supporting cast. The film looks horrible, at times dark and underlit, and at others displaying those sort of nonsense colours that the film and television people use when they are depicting the late 1960s. The disaster scenes are well-realised and edited, but they are only a small part of the whole.

Unfortunately, the skewed too far from the novels ending and several things throughout to be considered a great film. It was fun to watch. It had a nice budget, but Mr. Baumbach’s talents could be better served elsewhere

What a boring boring movie with zero intrigue

It really bothers me how much hate this film has gotten. I don't think I'm smarter than anyone else; but I do think that our films have gotten so watered down that people aren't used to having to think or be provoked. This film gets called "absurdist". It's not absurdist. It's real. It's about your life. It's about all of us. The major theme is that people build walls between what's real and their life. Families are little bubbles; people want their kids to be young forever. The film pokes fun of academics - they think they know everything, but they are good at talking about things but not experiencing it. The protagonist is a Hitler scholar, and yet he seems to not realize that Hitler is synonymous with death. He is very afraid of death, but he doesn't see that his academic work has to do with death. Virtually every scene displays this same phenomenon. People go to the supermarket to prolong their lives; they don't often think that butchers kill animals to give you their life. People get worried that they will die from crazy unlikely things, and yet, they act like they are invincible. They are bored with their lives, but they want to go on living forever. I'm not sure why people don't think there's a plot. The beginning sketches out this fear of death and the walls people build; the second act is when something terrifying happens that makes them feel death is close; the third act is the trauma from the fear of death. The main character received a diagnosis he will die from the gas, but he doesn't know when; so really, that's just like all of us. The wife is taking pills to get her mind off thinking about death. But when people leave the doctor's office, they stop thinking they're a patient. The main character's best friend studies Elvis - and people always joke that Elvis never died. You're free to hate the movie, but at least use your brain to realize that this movie is trying to tell you that you are like all the characters, building your walls and watching your Netflix so you can pretend you're not going to die.