Review of The Zero Theorem (2013) by Nicholas C — 09 Jul 2017
A companion piece and counter-point to Gilliam's Brazil, the Brave New World to the earlier film's 1984, the director constructs another reality just one step away from our own. This one a tyranny of pleasure rather than the deprivation of it; showing what our online sensory- and information-overload and pretentious, faux-intellectual, attention-demanding social media would look like given physical form.
Perhaps more than any of his previous work The Zero Theorem meshes the human side in a quiet, satisfactory way (helped by a brilliant understatement from Waltz) with the philosophical points. So we get a film about a relatable person with a proper character arc as well as a film about Life, the Universe and.
.. nothing?
This review of The Zero Theorem (2013) was written by Nicholas C on 09 Jul 2017.
The Zero Theorem has generally received mixed reviews.
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