White Noise

I recently watched the movie produced in 2005,the "white noise" and recently I noticed that there is another movie called "white noise" produced in 2022, I don't know if it's a continuation of the first or just different movies.

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The movie is classified as a horror movie where a man named Jonathan tried to commune with his dead wife who was pregnant to know the source or the cause of her drowning. So through a set of tvs, he tries to discern voices through white plain tvs with faint images. In the process, he gets to see and hear people calling out for help right before something tragic happens to them. For instance, in the course of listening through, he figured a lady asking for help and seeing some images on the screen directed him to the place. He was able to save the baby from the accident but could not spare the mother.

In trying to make contact with the dead could be dangerous, a blind psychic lady had warned him not to meddle in the affairs or he would get hurt but he was determined to find out. Even his friend Sarah was a victim of the demonic possession of the three spirits that made her fall from a high story building even while be watched.

In the end it was discovered that Jonathan's coworker was behind it as he was been possessed by the three spirits to kill people. While Jonathan tried to stop him, the spirits or ghosts attacked him, which led to his death and breaking his limbs.

Before more damage could be done, the corps arrived in time to save Anna, a captured victim who was just about to be killed.

An interesting thing happened at the funeral of Jonathan when suddenly in the car where Jonathan's 7year old son was, someone in the radio started saying "I am sorry" repeatedly. The smiled knowing fully well that it was his father.

In the movie, it shows that sometimes we just have to accept what comes to us and not meddle in affairs that can turn against us.

Thank you for reading.

Do you believe in "the other side"?? Can dead people contact the living through a medium? That is the premise of this horror movie. There is something called electronic voice phenomenon (EVP), that has been used by some to prove that the dead can contact the living through radio or television noise. I can only think of my years as a preteen trying to locate Radio Luxemburg on my parents old radio, and how it sounded when it could not catch a station well enough. I guess if you sit and listen to this noise, you are eventually going to hear "something" if you really want to.

Jonathan looses his wife in a car accident near the water and at first her body is not found but later turns up presumed drowned. He is contacted by EVP fanatic Price, who claims he has received a message from her. After he himself encounters some strange messages on his voice mail and computer, he looks him up. He is shown his white noise recordings and meets another "customer", Sarah who has lost her husband and now is contacted through Price. When he later finds Price dead in his home, he becomes obsessed with looking through his recording to find messages. He identifies a message from her, about an address, but the girl who lives there soon ends up dead. Then he finds himself caught up in a race against time to help people, before they die.

I am not too much into the "scare for the sake of scare" type horror movies. They use the age old jump scare tactics, nighttime excursions to scary places and dimly lit apartments and so on. All directly from the "So you wanna make a horror movie" guide book. The premise of the EVP thing, is not believable for me, unless seen as a metafor for reevaluation of a relationship that ended because one part died. But this movie does not really go down that path. It is simply a tool for creating a horrifying sensation. But i did not really get bored at any time, i still wanted to find out how the plot was supposed to finish. Michael Keaton does what he can to hold the standard up just enough to make it interesting.

I was a bit disappointed about the somewhat thin ending, but i had been entertained up until then. This is a standard kind of movie for killing some time, without having to use your brains too much. It does what it sets out to do, create a sufficiently interesting plot and give you a few scares, that are sufficiently coherent with the plot. It is an acceptable movie.

Rating: 4/10

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