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‘White Noise’ Review: Alt-Right Showcase Is the Scariest Documentary of the Year
Indiewire
Eric Kohn
IndiewireOctober 20, 2020

Half a decade ago, the ascendance of the alt-right was about as plausible as the election of Donald Trump, and we all know how that worked out. Like the 2016 election, director Daniel Lombroso’s provocative alt-right portrait “White Noise” isn’t all that surprising, but that doesn’t lessen the terror within. In capturing the racist trifecta of alt-right pundits Mike Cernovich, Laura Southern, and Richard Spencer, the documentary shows how they became emboldened by celebrity stature, and comes so close to letting them run the show it risks trumpeting their cause. Fortunately, it doesn’t take the most discerning bullshit detector to realize that “White Noise” has been engineered to expose a fundamental danger to whatever moral fabric America has left.

However, for the lucky few who somehow avoided any of this movie’s subjects and their small armies of white nationalist devotees, “White Noise” provides a handy primer (and just enough to avoid the need to dig further). Working closely with his subjects over the course of several years, Lombroso seems to have gained their trust, and his camera manages to track them across boisterous media appearances as they flaunt their provocative stupidity to every possible camera, including many adoring crowds.

Yet it also finds them at an inflection point — empowered by Trump’s election, but uncertain how to clarify the next steps. Spencer, the neo-Nazi who went viral for his infamous “Heil Trump” speech in 2016, annoys the hell out of Cernovich, the nebbishy “anti-feminist” blogger who prefers to deem his loathsome views as a defense against “white genocide.” Splitting the difference between the two, 25-year-old Canadian YouTube star Lauren Southern spouts maniacal xenophobic arguments against immigration and women’s rights with a camera-ready smirk that hangs over her most radical pronouncements like an awkward Trojan horse. Zipping between these as it maps out their deranged community, the movie implies varying degrees of danger on display: Spencer’s Hitleresque ambition makes for quite the horror show, but Cernovich’s unassuming dopiness and Southern’s next-gen Ann Coulter charm are just as alarming for the way they attempt to soften their putrid views with personality. At its worst, “White Noise” goes there with them.

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