Diary entries forWhite Noise
White Noise
wtf did i just watched ?!
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the cutest end credits of the year dropping on the next-to-last day of it there's a conversation that hit me to my core given my recent personal+family situation. so the end credits are what i'll choose to talk about/think about instead
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An aboslutely horrifying film to sit through, White Noise puts you front and center into America’s Alt-Right. I could feel myself getting extremely nervous while watching this film, and my stomach was constantly churning while watching it. It’s hard to sit through a documentary showing people who completely go against what you stand for, especially when they’re spouting antisemitic remarks and discussing creating ethnocentric areas. It’s highly compelling, and fantastic documentary work that really puts you into the shoes of someone who aligns themselves with this group. Horrifyingly captivating, White Noise is a must-see this year, even if it’s a hard film to sit through.
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I think Lars Eidinger has found his typecast in Hollywood and German cinema: a maniac.
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I'll be honest, I've been looking forward to this one and I had no idea that it came out today. Went on Netflix to rewatch Community and BAM! There it was. So I said "What the hell" And truly, what the hell? I'm kind of lost on what I should be taking away from this film. I think the first 2 acts are very solid. I love the expert emulation of 80's cinema on display and the lighting is also gorgeous. The acting is great but the last act kind of loses the melodrama in exchange for a bit of absurdity (down to the credits having a music number). Not sure how to feel about this one
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COMEDYx52(024) (https://letterboxd.com/allbeef/list/comedyx52024/) #41 of 52 | Watch a science fiction comedy (https://letterboxd.com/films/popular/genre/comedy+science-fiction/) film. Noah Baumbach takes a mediocre novel and turns it into a (surprise surprise) mediocre movie. Now, I do think that he actually improved upon the source material given how uninteresting and digressive the story is, but it’s only a slight improvement. In fact, there are many issues in the novel that are carried over into the film: the dialogue sounds unrealistic, the narrative never really goes anywhere, and the moral of the story is…death? Thank goodness for Adam Driver and Lol Crawley (cinematographer) who provide at least some redeeming qualities. It’s also worth mentioning that the train crash event depicted in this movie happened for real less than three months after its release. Same type of accident, same geographical location. East Palestine, Ohio…look it up. Absolutely crazy.
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después de tenerla por 3 años en mi watchlist me decidí a verla y no fue lo que esperaba. las actuaciones principales son muy buenas, la cinematografía es una maravilla y la banda sonora es muy buena. la premisa es interesante y tiene momentos buenos, propone varias ideas, que no estaría mal de no ser por el ritmo, que creo que no le ayuda para nada. no me encantó pero me pareció suficientemente interesante como para considerar darle otra oportunidad algún día
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For whatever reason this really worked for me. I can also imagine trying to watch it again in a week and finding it unbearable. Weird. Just pair Driver and Gerwig in anything and I’m there, they play off each other so well. 2022 Ranked (https://boxd.it/fSyMM)
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there's this hum underneath everything. d'agata calls it white noise, the frequency of loneliness that plays whether you're in a boardroom or a brothel, a suburban kitchen or back alleys. we're all just trying to find a signal in the static. i keep thinking about this. how the people we think we have nothing in common with are actually just us. how the distance between "us" and "them" is just geography, circumstance, a few wrong turns or lucky breaks. "i never wanted to accept the position of the observer who is not involved in the situation. the technique and the aesthetics do not matter to me. only the essence of what is happening is important to me." d'agata's camera doesn't keep its distance. he's not an observer looking in. he's there, in the room, implicated. sex workers, addicts, people living in the spaces most of us hurry past without looking. his images are blurred sometimes, not from lack of skill but because technique doesn't matter when you're confronting what scares you most. when you're trying to invent your own existence. there's a scene where someone sits alone in a hotel room, staring at nothing. could be any of us on a tuesday afternoon, feeling the weight of existing. the circumstances are extreme but the feeling? universal. he says he's privileged to spend time with people who are marginal to an extreme point because they have more pain, more frustration, more tragedy. Everything is more intense, more honest. But he can leave whenever he wants. that's the difference. except he lives in a 20 square meter room, describes himself as broke, chooses to stay at level zero. less chance of getting lost. less insulation from what's real. i won't lie, it's hard to watch. he doesn't soften anything, doesn't give you easy exits or comfortable judgments. but that's why it matters. in a world that keeps serving us sanitized versions of human experience, here's someone insisting on showing us what we'd rather not see. "a photograph is as authentic as a photographer's physical position and the responsibility arising from it." he knows the act of filming could become another form of violence. so his solution isn't to step back. it's to step deeper in. to accept the weight of bearing witness. the film exists in slow agony, watching over death while living for some vision of a loving world. it's a desperate search for connection amid ferocious misery. not despite it. through it. i've always carried this question. what if the distance between us and them is just an illusion we maintain to sleep better at night?
