{"id":28544,"date":"2023-03-16T17:57:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28544"},"modified":"2023-03-16T17:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T16:57:33","slug":"a-review-of-the-2022-film-white-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28544","title":{"rendered":"A review of the 2022 film &#8220;White Noise&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\nI chose to watch this film because I&#8217;ve found interesting some other work by the writer and director Noah Baumbach (such as &#8220;While We&#8217;re Young&#8221; and &#8220;Marriage Story&#8221;) and I usually admire the performances of the lead actors Adam Driver (such as the aforementioned films and recent segments of the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; saga) and Greta Gerwig (such as &#8220;Mistress America&#8221; and &#8220;Maggie&#8217;s Plan&#8221;).\n<p>\nBut let me save you two and a quarter hours of your life by advising you not to bother with this movie. Some critics have loved it, calling it absurdist and post-modern, but I found it incoherent and inexplicable. I suppose it is some kind of satire on modern America, but it left me cold and confused.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I chose to watch this film because I&#8217;ve found interesting some other work by the writer and director Noah Baumbach (such as &#8220;While We&#8217;re Young&#8221; and &#8220;Marriage Story&#8221;) and I usually admire the performances of the lead actors Adam Driver (such as the aforementioned films and recent segments of the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; saga) and Greta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28545,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28544\/revisions\/28545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}