Delillo's wild postmodern epic is faithfully adapted on Baumbach's watch. Packed with every genre known to cinema, Baumbach's dark satire highlights the prophetic nature of the novel, which of course could only be revealed many years after its initial publication. Baumbach captures Delillo's lampooning of the ego of academe -with a team of nutty professors that includes Don Cheadle, Andre 3000, Logan Fry, Jodi Turner-Smith- and middle-class malaise with Mama poppin' pills courtesy of a mad scientist. It's mayhem and chaos in a Warholian paradise, with a hint of noir on the side. Good 'messy' fun.
Review of White Noise
