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One look at Terry Gilliam’s flmography and it pondering going on in the flm. Void of emotion and
becomes immediately clear that the cult director’s depth, Gilliam’s latest does extremely little to excite,
flms are something of a mixed bag. How does one which seems strongly evident given the despondent
begin to defne his body of work when, on the one quality of the flm.
hand, he can give you something amazing like 12
Monkeys to something less so with The Brothers Waltz does the best he can with material that feels
Grimm ? You never really quite know to expect when completely out of his reach (it honestly does seem
walking into a Gilliam flm though his trademark like Quentin Tarantino is the only person who can
visual style will unquestionably remain a constant. write Waltz’s dialogue) but never seems to have
enough conviction for his character.
His latest, The Zero Theorem, certainly has much in
the way of Gilliam’s visual style though it can prove As for its visuals, they come of as charming at frst but
to be quite meddlesome in what is otherwise a end up working against the flm as they continually
frustrating conundrum of a flm that’s far too clever work less in tandem with the flm’s relentlessly dour
for its own good. tone.
Set in a strange dystopian future, Qohen Leth Supposedly the third flm in a loose trilogy that began
(Christoph Waltz), is an odd, reclusive programmer with Brazil and 12 Monkeys, The Zero Theorem is
who has been assigned to work on the zero theorem hardly the kind of flm that you want to bookend a
- a code that, when completely cracked, will give an trilogy that was followed by two previously adored
answer to the meaning of life. flms. Despite its attempts to titillate and compel,
The Zero Theorem is a tedious bore and is not the
As philosophically potent as The Zero Theorem ’s horrifcally dystopian Gilliam flm you were looking
plot might sound, there’s really not a whole lot of for.
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One look at Terry Gilliam’s flmography and it pondering going on in the flm. Void of emotion and
becomes immediately clear that the cult director’s depth, Gilliam’s latest does extremely little to excite,
flms are something of a mixed bag. How does one which seems strongly evident given the despondent
begin to defne his body of work when, on the one quality of the flm.
hand, he can give you something amazing like 12
Monkeys to something less so with The Brothers Waltz does the best he can with material that feels
Grimm ? You never really quite know to expect when completely out of his reach (it honestly does seem
walking into a Gilliam flm though his trademark like Quentin Tarantino is the only person who can
visual style will unquestionably remain a constant. write Waltz’s dialogue) but never seems to have
enough conviction for his character.
His latest, The Zero Theorem, certainly has much in
the way of Gilliam’s visual style though it can prove As for its visuals, they come of as charming at frst but
to be quite meddlesome in what is otherwise a end up working against the flm as they continually
frustrating conundrum of a flm that’s far too clever work less in tandem with the flm’s relentlessly dour
for its own good. tone.
Set in a strange dystopian future, Qohen Leth Supposedly the third flm in a loose trilogy that began
(Christoph Waltz), is an odd, reclusive programmer with Brazil and 12 Monkeys, The Zero Theorem is
who has been assigned to work on the zero theorem hardly the kind of flm that you want to bookend a
- a code that, when completely cracked, will give an trilogy that was followed by two previously adored
answer to the meaning of life. flms. Despite its attempts to titillate and compel,
The Zero Theorem is a tedious bore and is not the
As philosophically potent as The Zero Theorem ’s horrifcally dystopian Gilliam flm you were looking
plot might sound, there’s really not a whole lot of for.
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