Synopsis
Nothing is Everything
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
2013 Directed by Terry Gilliam
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
Le Pacte Zanuck Independent MediaPro Pictures Zephyr Films Picture Perfect Corporation Wild Side Films Voltage Pictures
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There are two possibe ratings for The Zero Theorem
Terry Gilliam Fans = 4 or higher
Normal People = 1 or lower
tilda swinton raps and david thewlis greets christoph waltz by calling him "a little slut." this movie has other stuff, too.
“we fear a great many things, but we fear nothing most of all.”
"Actually, we own the building. We bought it from an insurance company some years ago. There'd been extensive fire damage. The previous occupants were an order of monastic monks who'd sworn vows of chastity, poverty and silence. Apparently, no one broke the silence to yell fire."
After reading some thoughtful positive reviews of the latter film I'm less confident with this analogy, but The Zero Theorem feels like Lucy as made by a much more creative director but which still doesn't quite succeed because of the difficulties inherent to this creativity. It's a movie that never compromises its vision in order to appeal to a general audience, but in throwing out the playbook on how to write a story it…
What, in the honest to god fuck, has been up with my movie selections lately. I really need to start reading the fucking synopsis before pressing play blindly.
Did I love this movie? What the fuck?
Following my watches of "Beyond the Black Rainbow" and "In the Mouth of Madness" comes another hallucinogenic trip, seemingly designed to make me question whether there's a point to it all. "It" being life.
I feel like I stepped into a Terry Gilliam wet dream here, or at least his most ambitious attempt at creating a visceral and LSD fueled experience. He's just kinda jerking himself off at this point. While this movie has deep themes and a rather intriguing science fiction premise, there…
My views of Terry Gilliam's movies varies, but I've missed plenty of his filmography. So maybe I'm wrong for saying this, but I like to think the man was going through a Mid-Life crisis and the movie here was the outcome. As we all know, the man has a wild imagination and his worlds are often colorful and have some surrealistic designs. This one follows that trend for some time, but there comes a point when even this gets excessive and I felt like I was watching a spy kid movie. Bald Christopher Waltz sits on a bench outside with a hat leaning 45 degrees, like those rappers of the 90s and early 2000s.
Though I would love to talk…
I’m sure Sid Sheinberg is laughing his ass off.
Those who know me, know I’m a Gilliam fanboy, and sometime apologist. Brazil has stood the test of Letterboxd time, staunchly remaining my forth favourite despite competition from probably more worthy newcomers. I love that film. Dystopian sci-fi is amongst my favourite sub-genres and anything falling in that category will always get an easier ride with me, and another created by Gilliam, you would almost think it would get a free pass. Well, not quite.
I’ve seen casual remarks comparing The Zero Theorem to my beloved Brazil .. often citing it as a ‘companion piece’. Well, in some ways I’d have to say that’s true on the most basic level. Our…
A Pat Rushin/Terry Gilliam stream of consciousness that jumps from concept to concept without hesitation, posing a multitude of questions which it knows it cannot answer. Tonally inconsistent (though not necessarily in a bad way), oddly acted (but which Terry Gilliam film isn't?), sharply written, well directed, visually stunning, and existential yet (anti?)nihilistic... basically an awesome fucking mess of a film. Spectacular at times, meandering at others. I was going to wait to write up anything on this one until I had some time to digest it, but now I'm not quite certain that there is anything to digest. Some will hail this film as a grand statement on humanity, and others will find it to be unbearably meaningless. I think I land somewhere in the middle.
Christoph Waltz must get in the zone,
And solve "Zero Theorem" alone.
He'll keep on screaming,
About life's meaning,
Unless he works remotely at home.
34/100
A.V. Club review. Like a relic from an alternate universe in which Brazil was made by an idiot.
Viewed with the Collab.
I'm coming down at least a whole two stars from my initial-watch rating here. This is truly rehashed Gilliamisms and sci-fi gobbledygook opining on "the meaning of life". Douglas Adams already achieved the masterful British version of these ideas with Hitchhicker's Guide, and I'm shocked I didn't see it that way before. I was probably shoehorning in my expectations for the newest Gilliam film to be of the same quality of his films of yesteryear. We get it Terry, you're UBER quirky. If you're at all thinking of watching The Zero Theorem just watch Brazil instead, since that was made before Gilliam was trying to prove how he could work within the confines of a budget. Since I'm on a…
The Zero Theorem. 2013. Directed by Terry Gilliam.
Gilliam carefully incorporated the pop culture commercials we have been drip fed since we were children. In addition, his thesis is carefully crafted around Quantum Physics (eg A Brief History of Time; the book). All of this is percolating while the best cast including Christoph Waltz, Melanie Thierry, David Thewlis, and Tilda Swinton make up a supporting cast with the best lines in a film since Brazil. Tilda Swinton’s rapping is over the top hilarious while Lucas Hedges as BOB (O.S.) an operating system likes his pizza and the pizza rat got many cameo rehearsals before his big performance in NYC. I saw this film opening night at our favorite art cinema…
The Zero Theorem is way too claustrophobic for a futuristic sci-fi trip, that’s only because – let’s face it – writer-director Terry Gilliam these days is driven to show producers he can deliver his far-flung ideas under budget. The justification is to make the protagonist a recluse: Christoph Waltz plays a computer programmer who practically chooses to work himself to death. What's here thematically around the edges is probably the closest supplemental work Gilliam has to his masterpiece "Brazil" (1985), and the cynical filmmaker has dark fun creating production design with an emphasis on over-regulated globalization. The virtual reality beach fantasy forays with a perfectly adjustable orb for a sun and a perfect blonde beauty companion, a sharp contrast to the rest of this hellish enclosed vision, is some of the best work Gilliam has ever done. It's true you need to be an effin’ cerebral geek to enjoy this one. In disclosure I happen to qualify as one.