{"id":27876,"date":"2022-12-27T13:12:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T12:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1761640"},"modified":"2022-12-27T14:06:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T13:06:18","slug":"white-noise-ending-explained-what-does-the-dance-signify","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/white-noise-ending-explained-what-does-the-dance-signify\/","title":{"rendered":"White Noise ending explained: what does the dance signify?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 27 December 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Three years after his hit drama Marriage Story was nominated for six Oscars, Noah Baumbach has returned with another new film for Netflix \u2013 this time an adaptation of Don DeLillo\u2019s 1985 novel White Noise.<\/p>\n

The black comedy finds the writer\/director in rather different territory than he\u2019s used to, with the enigmatic film charting an array of unusual events in the life of Jack Gladney (Adam Driver) a\u00a0professor of \u201cHitler studies\u201d at the fictional College-on-the-Hill.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the film, we see Jack grapple with an \u201cairborne toxic event,\u201d a mysterious pharmaceutical drug called Dylar, and all sorts of fears about his own mortality, eventually leading to a dramatic and possibly rather puzzling conclusion.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve watched the film and need a little help unpacking it all, read on to have the White Noise ending explained.<\/p>

White Noise ending explained\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
During the Airborne Toxic Event \u2013 which occurs halfway through the film \u2013 Jack\u2019s life is changed forever when he is inadvertently exposed to a poisonous cloud.<\/p>\n
He is told that he is guaranteed to die from the exposure eventually, and although the \u2018experts\u2019 are unable to inform him exactly<\/em> what this means for his life expectancy, the knowledge further heightens his fear of death.<\/p>\n
After the event, most things seem to return to normal, but Jack notes that Babette has become increasingly distant, and together with Denise he works out that she has come to rely on a mysterious drug called Dylar.<\/p>\n
During his investigations \u2013 and after confronting Babette \u2013 he discovers that Dylar is a trial drug designed to treat anxieties about death and that Babette has been receiving it in exchange for sleeping with a man known as Mr. Gray.<\/p>\n
Jack decides he wants to take revenge on the man and finds a pistol that was previously given to him by his friend and fellow academic Murray Siskind during the evacuation caused by the Airborne Toxic Event.<\/p>\n
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