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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 it could 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 Kafka ask Brasil but then the second half of the movie you're basically locked in a church with the main character who in leather the thematics of this guy who like believes in God and is sitting in a church it's 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 you actually get you 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 - 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 and 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 Sam the internet swirling into the black hole of nothingness he's like a 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 that's setting the zero theorem is true everything is meaningless you might as well play around on 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 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 you