Wednesday, July 8, 2015

The Zero Theorem

The world created here is a future where everyone multitasks, colors are super-saturated, computing is ubiquitous. It comes across as a strange mashup of decadence and poverty, a cross between Moulin Rouge and Brazil. The story follows a programmer who is probably OCD and working in a Vegas casino like atmosphere stresses him out. Supposedly he is given a task to find the meaning of life, but I didn't get that far. The story didn't move fast enough to hook me. Instead, we spent too much time creating the world, and not enough time living in it. Maybe this is the point? On paper, this seems like exactly the kind of film I would enjoy. Alas, I will never know.
1 star (out of 5)

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