In a practical sense, we can say that narratives generally end when the plot ends so, in effect, the narrative dies with the end of the plot. Jack's statement that narrative plots move deathward is not a new idea in Peter Brooks's Reading For the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative, Brooks also finds that death is the drive of all plots (as do many other thinkers, from Freud to Sartre). They enter the theater in unison in their similarly-styled clothing, and they await the robed Jack's lecture with the same anticipation crowds had for Hitler's speeches. The students in Jack's class resemble a parody of a Nazi parade. Jack wants to believe that humans have an innate sense of reality, but Nazism disproves this we are easily controlled by images and spectacle.Īnd we have not changed all that much since Nazi Germany. He is attuned to the ways Hitler manipulated the media and popular judgment and managed to convince the masses they were in the right. Do our senses falsely construct reality, much as Jack believes the media does? This wariness of media makes sense for Jack's character. The questions raised by Heinrich are valid. While in most families the father and son may discuss sports or endure chilly silences, here the father and his son debate the objectivity of reality - and, more hilariously, the moody, older-than-his-years (note the receding hairline) son bests his academic father on a number of rhetorical and imaginative levels. The conversation between Jack and Heinrich is another subversion of traditional family relationships. He wonders why he has said this, and what it means. He says that all plots move "deathward," that death is the contract both the plotters and the targets of the plot sign. After the showing, Jack lectures on "plots" - political, narrative, etc. The footage concentrates on crowd scenes.
#WHITE NOISE RAIN MOVIE#
Jack goes to his college's movie theater, where he will screen in the background footage of Nazi rallies and films for his class, Advanced Nazism, a study of the mass appeal of fascism through rallies, parades, and uniforms. Jack watches him walk into school, feeling Heinrich attracts a sense of danger for instance, he plays chess-by-mail with a convicted murderer. Heinrich believes the senses can lie and that truth is relative, and refutes Jack's common-sense arguments in a number of ways. He drives Heinrich to school and debate the rain Heinrich informs him that the radio said it was going to rain tonight, while Jack points out that it is already raining, and that they don't need to believe the radio over their own senses. Heinrich's hair is receding, and Jack wonders if he is at fault for having raised his son near a chemical dump site.
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