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Before the word âincelâ was coined and the danger of domestic terrorism fully realised, Ted Kaczynski was sitting in his cabin in the woods writing reams of eco-fascist musings and building bombs. The maths genius turned murderer better known as the Unabomber is the subject of Tony Stoneâs new film, an intimate portrait of a man whose frustrations turn to murderous violence.
We first spy Ted in the distance through the trees, while in the foreground snowmobiles tear through the landscape. The noise of the snowmobiles and the heavy doom-filled drone of the Blanck Mass score portends something bad brewing. Sure enough, Ted breaks into the home of the offending snowmobilers and vandalises the vehicles.
Ted K Review: Sharlto Copley Is the Unabomber in a Slow-Burning True-Crime Study Ted K Review: Sharlto Copley Is the Unabomber in a Slow-Burning True-Crime Study Peter and the Farm director Tony Stone takes an ambient, minimalistic approach to the life of notorious domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski.
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Running time: Running time: 121 MIN.
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For a criminal who revealed his agenda in exhaustively detailed black-and-white via his famous essay “Industrial Society and the Future,” published in The Washington Post months ahead of his 1996 capture Ted Kaczynski remains a somewhat unreadable figure. The domestic terrorist better known as the Unabomber killed three people and injured two dozen more in a national bombing campaign aimed at protesting man’s environmental destruction and technological dependence. Yet his manifesto shed little light on who he actually was, or how a mild-mannered math professor
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