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White Noise
2005 · Film · 98 min
Directed by Geoffrey Sax
An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave using EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon), becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.
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White Noise had several plots over chapters. The plume scenes were a fantastic balance of hilarious and scary:
Summary: Chapter 21 Jack finds Heinrich on the roof, looking through a pair of binoculars at a distant black cloud of smoke. Heinrich informs Jack that a train car has been derailed. Later, they both return to watch the cloud. Heinrich says that the burning chemical in the air is Nyodene Derivative, or Nyodene D., a toxic substance that causes lumps in rats. The radio has already listed nausea, skin irritation, and sweaty palms as potential symptoms of exposure. Jack tries to reassure Heinrich that the smoke won’t come toward them and continues to act comfortable and indifferent. He sits down to pay the bills, even as rumors of increasing danger come in over the radio and phone. Sirens begin to blare through the neighborhood, but Jack declares that such things can’t happen in a town like theirs. New symptoms are reported on the radio, and the cloud is given a new name: the airborne toxic event. Heinrich tries to get his father to acknowledge the danger, but Jack declares that he is a college professor, not to mention the chair of a department, and can’t imagine someone like him fleeing something like an airborne toxic event. The family anxiously gathers for dinner as the air raid warnings grow closer.
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/whitenoise/section7/
https://www.wlwt.com/article/ohio-train-derailment-white-noise-movie-plot-real-life/42859167
https://twitter.com/Marfoogle/status/1625323668397256704
Pretty much all of his work is highly recommended! He's famous for White Noise and Cosmopolis (there was a movie with the guy from Twilight), but Mao and Falling Man are probably my favorites.
Delillo and Cormac McCarthy are two current authors I would expect to be read 100 years from now.
Oops I meant White Noise. That film really creeped me out!
Then try the movie "White Noise"
I sat through the (not so good) "White Noise" with some guy spending a good portion of the movie explaining loudly to his girlfriend why Michael Keaton would have been editing his audio files even faster if he was on a PC instead of a Mac.