Rating of
0.5/4
Ludicrous Hullabulloo
Alan @ Transbuddha - wrote on 12/23/08
White Noise is a “movie” about an architect (Michael Keaton) whose wife mysteriously disappears and he begins to think she might be trying to talk to him through the static on the television. Yeah, that’s a normal reaction. The convoluted “plot” involves the living and dead making contact with Keaton to be their personal protector, a group of three ghosts (well, I’m not sure they are ghosts since not even the director had an explanation for them except he thought they were really cool…yeah, maybe in MST2000 kinda way). So Keaton works with an expert in EVP and meets other people who believe their dead friends and relatives are talking to them through static. Keaton’s character never considers he is being taken for a ride (the so called experts seek him out) or that his wife might be alive and consider something sane like hiring someone to find her; instead he totally ignores his young son and delves into a rather ludicrous obsession. Nor do the police find it troubling that Keaton keeps showing up at the scenes where dead bodies are discovered, I don’t know folks but maybe that sounds a tad suspicious to me. The movie attempts to use EVP to create a suspsenseful horror movie, the result however makes those who believe in EVP look more pathetic than people who believe Elvis and Hitler are living together on a mountain in Tibet with Amelia Earhart.
