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An exploration of Ted Kaczynski's life in Lincoln, Montana in the years leading up to his arrest as The Unabomber.An exploration of Ted Kaczynski's life in Lincoln, Montana in the years leading up to his arrest as The Unabomber.An exploration of Ted Kaczynski's life in Lincoln, Montana in the years leading up to his arrest as The Unabomber.
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I would recommend people read some of the NY Times, NY Magazine, ABC News pieces looking into Kaczynski's own writings and statements to friends. This would make it clear that the simplistic analysis in this film as well as many other shallow treatments of his views/rationalizations ignore the clear evidence that Kaczynski was an anarchist, climate activism terrorist, and if classifiable at all, would be far left.
This bizarre treatment him as some kind of incel is simply not fact based.
This bizarre treatment him as some kind of incel is simply not fact based.
I've previously watched the excellent series Manhunt: Unabomber so felt compelled to see this through. It's factual but very very slow and light on detail about Ted K's targets and focusses far too much on his backwoodsman lifestyle imo.
Nevertheless a fascinating story about the largest manhunt in FBI history even though we get to see very little of it.
Nevertheless a fascinating story about the largest manhunt in FBI history even though we get to see very little of it.
Tries to protray the man as a pervert and a climate activist, absolute rubbish. Wouldn't waste my time on this propoganda. Just more historical distortion to fit the narrative of today. Try actually reading books before watching this awful representation.
The screenplay was terrible - it felt like it got lost trying to figure out if it wants to be a documentary or a movie. Tony Stone's directing made matters worse with very little substance and a whole lot of filler to fill in the run-time. The endless NatGeo scenes of nature, animals and wilderness just bored me and was all irrelevant to the story. Ya we get it, he's an off-grid guy. Then, all the interesting parts - the guts of Ted K's story, were weak, too short and lacked much needed insight and impact. This all could've just been condensed into a 20-30 min short docu-story. Aside from Sharlto Copley's decent performance, this film was a boring sloth and rather pointless.
Loved the veer away from the 'American cop show' approach, letting us uncomfortably live in Ted's environment. Sharlto Copeley is excellent, believable and disturbing. Arthouse style, assumes a knowledge, loved it.
Did you know
- TriviaThe movie playing on the television in Ted's motel room at around 51:00 (as a voice over) is Repo Man (1984), specifically it's the scene wherein Emilio Estevez's character has first entered into the auto shop to collect his first fee as an unwitting repo man.
- GoofsThere is a moment in the 3rd act in which a voice-over suggests that the Unabomber might be envious of the media attention given to the Oklahoma City bombing, which happened in 1995. Later, the infamous O.J. Simpson Bronco chase is seen on a TV. The Bronco chase happened in 1994, but is presented as having happened after the OC bombing.
- SoundtracksLet the Bright Seraphim from Samson, HWV 57
Written by George Frideric Handel (as George Friederich Händel)
Performed by Kathleen Battle & Wynton Marsalis
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- Gross US & Canada
- $35,464
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $20,851
- Feb 20, 2022
- Gross worldwide
- $51,544
- Runtime
- 2h(120 min)
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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