White Noise
★★★
White Noise feels like a mixture of an '80s adventure romp, a David Lynch fever dream with the aesthetics and color scheme of a Wes Anderson offbeat journey. That sentence alone will determine if you will be intrigued by this movie or not. I feel as if White Noise would have been at its best if it stuck to one lane, but I don't fault director Noah Baumbach for going for it. He takes a detour from his more straightforward approach to family drama and adds in Hitler, chemical spills and pills.
Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig work really well together and give all of themselves to the story. I don't think it always works but I found myself intrigued by where everything was going. It seems like I've been watching a lot of movies about mid-life crises and even though I didn't quite connect to the dark themes of White Noise, I could rest in knowing that I'm not quite at the point of distress as this family.
White Noise is the perfect example of a film that I appreciate but is difficult to recommend. But it does have one of the best musical/dance sequences that I've seen in quite some time. If you don't think White Noise is for you, I don't fault you. But if you have Netflix, do yourself a favor and watch the end credits. It alone deserves recognition.
