The cinema came to life. The residents of eastern Palestine, Ohio are faced with a strange dystopian reality following the plot of the 2022 Netflix movie ‘White Noise’. was released earlier this month.

on February 3 a train carrying dangerous chemicals derailed and exploded in eastern Palestinecause Hydrogen chloride and phosgene are released into the air.

With more than 2,000 residents evacuated, schools closed for a week, and the ongoing mystery surrounding the long-term toxicity of the chemicals, the residents are shocked.

The surprise was bigger when it was discovered that the movie, which was filmed and set in Ohio, contains the same plot. Based on the 1985 novel of the same name, White Noise is about a family in Ohio who found adrift after a freight train carrying hazardous chemicals exploded, leaking them into the air and exposing the family to toxic chemicals.

The eerie story touches some residents deeply, such as Ben Ratner, a native of eastern Palestine, who participated in the film as an extra. “The first half of the movie is almost exactly what’s going on here,” Ratner told CNN four days after he and his family were evacuated. Ratner, 37, can be seen in White Noise playing a man who You wait in your car in an evacuation line.

The similarities between the situation and the movie are coincidental, but it’s hard for people not to draw parallels between the two in a conspiracy-like way. ‘White Noise’ starring Adama Driver and Greta Gerwig.