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The Sunday Read: ‘How Noah Baumbach Made “White Noise” a Disaster Movie for Our Moment’

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White Noise by d'Lillola

White noise is narrated by Jack Gladney, the head of the Hitler Studies Department at a small Midwestern college. D'Lillola's characters cope with all the information coming at them by compulsively scrutinizing it,. desperate to discover something resonant and true. The disaster has brought death closer, made it louder, made it real. There are people who rapcidize about the supermarket as a spiritual experience.

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