2013 · drama · fantasy · sci-fi
The Zero Theorem
Directed by Terry Gilliam1h 47m2013
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.
Our read: The Zero Theorem (2013) reads as a sombre, measured, surreal drama · fantasy · sci-fi entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- gentle
- surreal
- cold
- twisty
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