{"id":10046,"date":"2015-08-10T20:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T01:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10046"},"modified":"2015-08-02T22:51:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T03:51:15","slug":"the-zero-theorem-2014-terry-gilliam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10046","title":{"rendered":"The Zero Theorem (2014, Terry Gilliam)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz, not Michael Fassbender – I think of each as “the guy from Inglorious Basterds<\/a><\/em>,” so get them confused) is a socially inept worker bee who doesn’t hate his video-game-reminiscent job, just hates having to come into work, so he gets permission to work from home on a special project from management (Matt Damon): proving “the zero theorem”. He’s aided\/annoyed by Waltz’s direct supervisor David Thewlis, party-girl-for-hire Melanie Thierry (The Princess of Montpensier<\/em>) and whiz-kid Bob (Lucas Hedges), who calls everyone else Bob so he doesn’t have to remember names. As Leth’s video therapist: Tilda Swinton – between this, Trainwreck<\/a><\/em>, Snowpiercer<\/a><\/em> and Moonrise Kingdom<\/a><\/em>, she has really gotten into comedy lately.<\/p>\n

Kinda about a search for the meaning of life (or a disproof of its meaning), with sort of a Dark City<\/em> ending. Shot on the cheap in Romania.<\/p>\n

Thierry at Leth’s glorious, delapidated-church home:<\/em>
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Sadly (so sadly) Mike D’Angelo might have put it best: “Like a relic from an alternate universe in which Brazil<\/a><\/em> was made by an idiot.” Written by a creative writing teacher from Florida, it’s got its moments, but the story and characters and entire movie seem to add up to nothing (maybe the film proves its own theorem).<\/p>\n

Leth and Bob at the park:<\/em>
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Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz, not Michael Fassbender – I think of each as “the guy from Inglorious Basterds,” so get them confused) is a socially inept worker bee who doesn’t hate his video-game-reminiscent job, just hates having to come into work, so he gets permission to work from home on a special project from management […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1582,837,1107,1034,782],"class_list":["post-10046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-christoph-waltz","tag-future","tag-matt-damon","tag-terry-gilliam","tag-tilda-swinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10111,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046\/revisions\/10111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}