I think I'm too stupid for this movie.

135 minutes of utter stupidity.

It’s the Charlie Kaufman version of _Don’t Look Up_. This is essentially an exploration of all the different ways we collectively distract ourselves from our own mortality by means of white noise (some examples of the noise this film touches on being [spoiler] excessive consumerism, misinformation, cult of personality, religion, overprescribing and quackery [/spoiler]). I actually really like the dialogue and how the characters are written, it gives the film a very unique voice. Granted, it feels like an academic’s interpretation of Wes Anderson, so it’s wordy, eccentric and dry, but I like that. Sometimes you need to dig in order to understand what’s being said, or what the joke is. It’s very well shot (the second half in particular is very stylish), the acting’s great and it also has one of Elfman’s better scores in recent memory. However, I do think the storytelling is inelegant. There are a lot of tonal shifts that don’t work at all, and the two halves feel way too disconnected. They’re thematically linked, but besides that, they feel like two completely different movies. The second half is also considerably slower and less interesting. Still, I think this is entertaining, and the credits (which include a fantastic new LCD Soundsystem song) are a major highlight. 6/10

Pretentious but shallow piece of chaos. I hate movies that are artsy for the sake of being artsy. _White Noise_ is worse than bad, it's the kind of bad that thinks it's deep and profound, it feels like provocation for provocation's sake. I admire it for its creativity and ambition but this is one of those movies that gets off on being weird, which I really dislike. The dialogue and manner of speech was truly awful and distracting. The words play out so contrived, like they were told to perform a table read on set. Noah Baumbach watched _I'm Thinking Of Ending Things_ and thought, _"I can do that"_, and somehow made something even more _~~I Am Very Smart_. Bless anyone that finishes this movie. Not for me in the slightest. I feel like this is the kind of movie you've gotta be in the right mood to enjoy. I was not in the right mood.