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WHITE NOISE
Director : Geoffrey Sax
Cast : Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger, Chandra West, Ian McNeice
(Universal, 2005) Rated: PG-13
Release date : 7 January 2005 by Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters Film and TV Editor
Michael Keaton in White Noise
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comment on this article Void White Noise is about watching static. Not just any static, but static through which dead people chatter at living people. In order to enlist your interest in this enterprise, which, even for its basis in real experiences, as emphasized in the film's promotional materials, it gives you a central character who wants very much to watch this static. That would be John Rivers (Michael Keaton), who starts off the film looking comfortable, and not particularly interested in static. He and his second wife, lovely Anna (Chandra West), live in a fabulous, simultaneously spacious and acutely angled house (he's an architect in Washington state, she's an "international author," whatever that means) and share a sincere affection for one another, as well as for John's son Mikey (Nicholas Elia), product of a previous marriage, now living with them. Their morning routine is sweet and mutually supportive he's headed to his huge firm downtown, she's going to check the cover design for her latest novel) and only briefly interrupted by Anna's announcement: she's pregnant. Cue the death knell. | |
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