The Net

6.0
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 121 min
  • Premiere: 2003. October 1.

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.

Discover

Eva Mattes

Narrator (voice)

Tom Vogt

Narrator (voice)

Chris Waits

Himself

Ted Kaczynski

Self (archive footage)

Directing

Dietmar Post

Assistant Director

Lutz Dammbeck

Director

Editing

Sound

Writing

Directing

Dietmar Post

Assistant Director

Lutz Dammbeck

Director

Editing

Sound

Writing