Wednesday, 25 December 2024

White Noise (3 Stars)



I have a Netflix account that I share with my son Benjamin. He doesn't have many films on disc, so he uses it a lot. I don't use the account much. Sometimes I don't log in for months. Recently I received an email advertising "White Noise" as a new film on Netflix. I checked the trailer, and it looked interesting, so I decided to watch it today.

How can I describe it? It's well filmed and the acting is competent, but what's the point? In the first half of the film there's an environmental disaster, when toxic chemicals spill from a train and a poisonous cloud spreads through Ohio. In the second half a college professor finds out his wife is secretly taking pills to stop her being afraid of dying. What do the two subjects have to so with one another?

The film is based on a novel, so it's possible that the book would answer my question. I won't bother reading it to find out. "White Noise" was a monumental box office flop before being taken to streaming. That's one of the good reasons for Netflix. It collects films that nobody wants to pay money to watch.

Success Rate:  - 1012.1

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