Film review: White Noise is an ambitious attempt to capture the chaos of day-to-day existence

It is a cleverly constructed satire but by the end, it’s unclear as what exactly is being satirised, or to what end

White Noise stars Adam Driver as Jack, an American academic who is an expert in Hitler studies. Picture: Netflix

★★★☆☆

Set in 1984, White Noise (15A) stars Adam Driver as Jack, an American academic who is an expert in Hitler studies. He and his wife, Babette (Greta Gerwig), along with their unruly brood of precocious children, are just about managing to surf “the incessant flow of information” that flows through the American airwaves as the story begins, but soon their lives are hugely disrupted by a toxic airborne event when a train carrying potent chemicals is derailed near their town.