Movielogr
The Net (2003)
Directed by Lutz Dammbeck
Overview
More of a film essay - of the type pioneered by Orson Welles and Chris Marker - than a standard documentary, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck’s The Net: The Unabomber, the LSD and the Internet begins with the typical format and structure of a nonfiction film, and a single subject (the life and times of mail bomber Ted Kaczynski). From that thematic springboard, Dammbeck branches out omnidirectionally, segueing into a series of thematic riffs and variants on such marginally-related subjects as: the history of cyberspace, terrorism, utopian ideals, LSD, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Cuckoo’s Nest author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.
Length 121 minutes
Actors
Eva Mattes | Tom Vogt | Lutz Dammbeck | Stewart Brand | John Brockman | Butch Gehring | David Gelernter | Robert W. Taylor | Heinz von Foerster | Chris Waits | Norbert Wiener | Theodore John Kaczynski