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White Noise in Real-Life catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio.
If you haven’t seen White Noise, it was a catastrophe film that happened too close to home in East Palestine, Ohio, a few days ago. What happened there was a train collided together with a vehicle and caused an Airborne Toxic Event, and it is killing the ecosystem of animals, but the humans are safe. That’s the same plot as the from the White Noise (2022). Suppose you have yet to see it. Please check it out.
Ben Ratner, who played an evacuee in the film, couldn’t believe it happened a few days ago. It was merely a coincidence.
Based on the same-titled 1985 book, the film tells the story of a family who must leave their hometown after a deadly toxin-laden freight train collides with a tanker truck and explodes. However, the tanker truck was missing. Instead, an eerily similar incident occurred in a northeast Ohio town.
The Ratner family signed up to be extras when the chance to enjoy a fun diversion from every day came knocking in 2021 while “White Noise” was being shot on location in Ohio. They had no idea that about a year and a half later, their lives would resemble the film in which they played evacuees.
