Baumbach captures DeLillo’s obsession with the "extraordinary in the ordinary." The grocery store acts as a recurring cathedral of consumerism—bright, sterile, and comforting. The film posits that we use "noise" (television, radio, shopping, academic jargon) to drown out the one thing we can't control: the fact that we will eventually die.
The film shifts into a Spielbergian disaster flick. The visuals of the "black billowing cloud" are hauntingly beautiful, turning a train wreck into a surrealist nightmare. White.Noise.2022.MULTi.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.H264.DDP...
The end-credits dance sequence in the supermarket to LCD Soundsystem’s "new body rhumba" is a perfect, joyful summation of the film's absurdity. joyful summation of the film's absurdity.