Noah Baumbach on ‘White Noise’ and Psychotropic Fantasies of the 1980s

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White Noise is a different cinematic animal than the director’s past work and the first of Baumbach’s career to be adapted from a literary work.

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is an altogether different cinematic animal, and the first of Baumbach’s career to be adapted from a literary work. It is based on Don DeLillo’s, a novel that falls somewhere between post-Pynchonian speculative fiction and suburban satire. Since its publication in 1985, DeLillo’s work had long been considered unfilmable, in the vein of Pynchon’s, with a string of aborted adaptations to its name .

But there are troubling secrets beneath the veneer of the Gladney household, including Babette’s mysterious pill regimen and Jack’s shameful lack of fluency in German, which he learns sub rosa from an eccentric local. And then there are the sinister nightmares that Jack has. “I feel like I’m falling through myself,” he mutters in bed. “Like a heart-stopping plunge.

 

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