Review of White Noise (2022) by Hunisenpai — 03 Jan 2023

This movie is best described as a surrealistic commentary on the most fundamental human condition: we are beings whose sole purpose is to survive briefly to reproduce. We end up liking this "surviving", wanting it to continue long after we have served Darwin's famously established role.

The supermarket in the movie symbolizes indulgence and bliss in life, though natural selection cares for neither. Creatures exist because they are good at perpetually existing (I.e. through feeding and eventual reproduction) not because they have any purpose whatsoever. The supermarket, through it's abundance of excessive choices, exemplifies the jovial defiance of that reality. We are like Bender (Futurama) : conceived to bend metal, yet then plastering pleasure, pain, and meaning onto his meaningless existence.

This concept is conveyed surrealistically, intended to be read more like your own dreams than a movie. Really fun to watch, and really existentially triggering.