Review of White Noise (2022) by Jluis_001 — 18 Dec 2022

So many elements collide in White Noise that it barely manages to put together anything that actually seems to have been coherently constructed.

What is even more surprising is that Noah Baumbach seems to want his film to have the same complexity of several of the themes that the plot develops and yet it is evident that the story gets out of his hands on several occasions, and more than once I felt that he left everything up in the air not with the intention of making it feel like a puzzle but as something that he wasn't able to make sense of either.

From what I understand, because I don't know the book on which this film is based, the book itself is considered unfilmable, and being now its first adaptation, it is clear that Baumbach failed to crack the code and the film he was left with was a collection of ideas that, while not lacking in complete direction, also don't seem to have any sense that could be called definite or useful.

Was it ego that made him try to tackle a story like this? I can only make assumptions, but in my opinion, he failed big time.