White Noise, starring actor Adam Driver, has eerie similarities to a catastrophic train derailment that took place earlier this month in Ohio.
The movie, based in Ohio in the 1980s, depicts a college professor and his family forced to evacuate their home after a nearby train derailment prompts an airborne radiological event.
Parts of the movie which debuted last August were filmed near East Palestine – the site where 50 train cars derailed ten days ago spewing toxic chemicals – with citizens of the town incredibly appearing in the movie as extras.
Wow. Here’s a movie just made about a train derailing with toxins in Ohio – filmed in Ohio where it just happened, & many of the extras were locals from East Palestine Ohio who, in the film,evacuated. Then months later they had to do so in real life! Bonkers! 🤯 please share🤯 pic.twitter.com/dNj1BS0wRK
— Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News 🙌 (@unhealthytruth) February 12, 2023
“Wow. Here’s a movie just made about a train derailing with toxins in Ohio – filmed in Ohio where it just happened, & many of the extras were locals from East Palestine Ohio who, in the film, evacuated. Then months later they had to do so in real life! Bonkers!” wrote Twitter user Erin Elizabeth.
— MK (@mmk_blahblah) February 12, 2023
The similarities between the movie and the actual event were so bizarre even CNN published an article on the coincidence, interviewing an East Palestine resident who played a background actor.
When Ben Ratner’s family signed up in 2021 to be extras in the movie “White Noise,” they thought it would be a fun distraction from their day-to-day life in blue-collar East Palestine, Ohio.
Ratner, 37, is in a traffic jam scene, sitting in a line of cars trying to evacuate after a freight train collided with a tanker truck, triggering an explosion that fills the air with dangerous toxins. In another scene, his father wears a trench coat and hat while people walk across an overpass to get out of town. Directors told the group they wanted them to look “forlorn and downtrodden” as they escape the environmental disaster.
The 2022 movie was shot around Ohio and is based on a novel by Don DeLillo. The book was published in 1985, shortly after a chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, that killed nearly 4,000 people. The book and film follow the fictional Gladney family – a couple and their four kids – as they flee an “airborne toxic event” and then return home and try to resume their normal lives.
Ratner tried to rewatch the movie a few days ago and found that he couldn’t finish it.
“All of a sudden, it hit too close to home,” he said.
Ratner and his family – his wife, Lindsay, and their kids, Lilly, Izzy, Simon and Brodie – are living the fiction they helped bring to the screen.
The mysterious parallels between the movie and real life come as a Norfolk Southern Railroad train traveling from Illinois to Pennsylvania derailed in a massive fiery disaster on Feb. 3, with five train cars carrying noxious commercial compounds like vinyl chloride which is known to cause cancer.
Officials ordered mandatory evacuations of nearby areas and controlled releases of some of the toxic compounds.
Since then, animals nearby and as far as 10 miles away have been developing illnesses and dying from the toxic chemicals that contaminated the area.
Despite health issues animals are exhibiting, officials gave the all-clear for residents to return to the area five days later.
Source: Infowars
More on train Derailment:
- Hazmat Expert On Ohio Train Derailment Disaster: ‘We Nuked a Town With Chemicals To Get a Railroad Open’
- The Railway Company Behind the Ohio Crash Turned Record Profits in 2022 While Drastically Cutting Employees and Quality of Life
- Video Shows Norfolk Southern Train with Axle(s) on Fire Miles Before Derailment. Evidence Suggests at Least 40 Minutes Before Derailment
