Posted on 02/16/2023 11:39:40 AM PST by Golden Eagle
Noah Baumbach’s latest film, White Noise, arrived on Netflix at the end of December, without much fanfare. Despite a strong fall film festival run, it received mixed reviews from critics; it peaked at no. 4 on Netflix’s self-reported Global Top 10 list.
But White Noise is coming back into the public eye in a big way after the recent toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, led to many pointing out similarities between real life and the film.
The explosion, which is referred to in the movie as “The Airborne Toxic Event,” leads to lots of confusion, a lack of concrete information being relayed to the public (which leads to a lot of speculation from the Gladneys), mass evacuations for the public’s safety, and fears of contamination and death when Jack has to get out of his car to fill an empty gas tank and comes into brief contact with the air carrying harmful toxins; his interactions with authoritative figures don’t do much to placate his fears or prepare him for the worst.
“So apparently last year there was a movie on Netflix that nobody saw called White Noise where there was a cataclysmic train accident, which casted a cloud of chemical waste over a town in northeastern Ohio,” @salvatore_says explained. “And I think it’s just kind of breaking through that we’re in a digital Matrix right now.”
It is, in some ways, eerie, and White Noise has an even more surreal connection to East Palestine: White Noise was filmed in Ohio in 2021, and some of the film’s extras included residents from East Palestine, who now had to flee their homes after a similar airborne toxic event arrived in their town.
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pure coincidence
Life imitates art.............
I heard about “White Noise” and decided to watch it. Horrible movie.
“There are NO conspiracies, but there are NO coincidences”
- Stephen K. Bannon
Not to bad mouth the White Noise author Don Delillo, but to me he was trying too hard to be a Phillip K. Dick / William S. Burroughs hybrid.
I started watching it in December and thought it was really weird and turned it off. Then I picked it up again the other day and almost finished it but, once again, it was really weird so I turned it off. I thought it would more about the train derailment and less about those bizarre ppl in the movie.
White Noise was a stupid, effed up movie.
Yes, coincidence. Don’t watch.
Finally finished the book, it was a chore to do so.
Shall not be watching the movie.
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