 So Terry Gilliam's new movie, The Zero Theorem, it's out on video on demand and it's in some theaters but it's not everywhere, maybe because it's not that good of a movie. At the end you sort of just feel like, what did I watch here? And I should tell you right now, there's gonna be a lot of spoilers here. There's this guy, he's a programmer in the future, he's trying to solve the Zero Theorem. Basically it's this attempt to prove that the universe is going to shrink back on itself and turn into nothing. Although it's a little bit like paint by the numbers, Gilliam. You're expecting your standard Kafkaesque Brazil. But then the second half of the movie you're basically locked in a church with the main character, Owen Leffert. The thematics of this guy who believes in God and is sitting in a church is just a little bit heavy handed. So basically every single character in Zero Theorem acts kind of like an archetype. They're there to forward this larger philosophical argument that's happening, more so than to actually get you to connect to them as people. Except for Bainsley, the love interest, she actually feels like she has real human feelings and motivations. So when you see a Terry Gilliam film you expect a certain amount of visual flourish. There's Batman the Redeemer billboards, there's crazy ads, there's people wearing hilarious outfits made out of plastic. Lots of great set design too. It feels like this surreal place that's designed to sort of make this larger philosophical parable kind of argument. So let's talk about the end. At the end, Cohen has put on the virtual reality suit that's designed to help him find his soul and everything goes wrong and he ends up getting sucked into the computer and he sees all of these faces and people, the people that he's connected to, say on the internet, swirling into the black hole of nothingness. He's like, screw it, and he jumps in and he ends up on the beautiful sunny beach. Rather than be like, oh this sucks or what's going on here? And he starts playing with the sun aesthetic. The Zero Theorem is true, everything is meaningless. You might as well play around with the universe and have fun. But if you look at it as a metaphor for the internet, rather than freak out about our attention deficit and that we can't connect to each other as humans, just sort of accept that this is a reality that we've created for ourselves. It's this like standard, do you believe in meaning or do you believe in this nihilistic future? Philosophically, I didn't get a whole lot out of the movie. It's definitely not Gilliam's best work and you're not going to leave the theater feeling super awesome.
 So Terry Gilliam's new movie, The Zero Theorem, it's out on video on demand and it's in some
 theaters but it's not everywhere, maybe because it's not that good of a movie.
 At the end you sort of just feel like, what did I watch here?
 And I should tell you right now, there's gonna be a lot of spoilers here.
 There's this guy, he's a programmer in the future, he's trying to solve the Zero Theorem.
 Basically it's this attempt to prove that the universe is going to shrink back on itself
 and turn into nothing.
 Although it's a little bit like paint by the numbers, Gilliam.
 You're expecting your standard Kafkaesque Brazil.
 But then the second half of the movie you're basically locked in a church with the main
 character, Owen Leffert.
 The thematics of this guy who believes in God and is sitting in a church is just a little
 bit heavy handed.
 So basically every single character in Zero Theorem acts kind of like an archetype.
 They're there to forward this larger philosophical argument that's happening, more so than to
 actually get you to connect to them as people.
 Except for Bainsley, the love interest, she actually feels like she has real human feelings
 and motivations.
 So when you see a Terry Gilliam film you expect a certain amount of visual flourish.
 There's Batman the Redeemer billboards, there's crazy ads, there's people wearing hilarious
 outfits made out of plastic.
 Lots of great set design too.
 It feels like this surreal place that's designed to sort of make this larger philosophical
 parable kind of argument.
 So let's talk about the end.
 At the end, Cohen has put on the virtual reality suit that's designed to help him find his
 soul and everything goes wrong and he ends up getting sucked into the computer and he
 sees all of these faces and people, the people that he's connected to, say on the internet,
 swirling into the black hole of nothingness.
 He's like, screw it, and he jumps in and he ends up on the beautiful sunny beach.
 Rather than be like, oh this sucks or what's going on here?
 And he starts playing with the sun aesthetic.
 The Zero Theorem is true, everything is meaningless.
 You might as well play around with the universe and have fun.
 But if you look at it as a metaphor for the internet, rather than freak out about our
 attention deficit and that we can't connect to each other as humans, just sort of accept
 that this is a reality that we've created for ourselves.
 It's this like standard, do you believe in meaning or do you believe in this nihilistic
 future?
 Philosophically, I didn't get a whole lot out of the movie.
 It's definitely not Gilliam's best work and you're not going to leave the theater feeling
 super awesome.