This German documentary tries to link together 1960s counter-culture, the military industrial complex, the new world order, LSD, CIA mind control experiments, the Internet, metaphysics, and Gödel's incompleteness theorem all to the Unabomber–and all narrated in a female German monotone. If this sounds like the recipe for a mind-numbing mess, well that's pretty much what it is.
The film suffers from trying too hard to link everyone and everything to Ted Kaczynski. Even the most incidental subjects are presented in a conspiratorial light. Connections are insinuated but director Lutz Dammbeck offers only conjectures and speculation not proof.
About the only interesting thing that Dammbeck accomplishes is writing to Kaczynski and surprisingly entering into an ongoing correspondence. In German no less. Kaczynski's replies from his cell in the maximum security prison in Florence, CO are lucid and to the point. He even upbraids Dammbeck at one point for misrepresenting Gödel's incompleteness theorem and inappropriately applying it outside its mathematical domain.
As an idea for a film, exploring the societal roots which might underly and produce a Unabomber is a good one but unfortunately this film is not it.
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