12-30-2014, 06:36 PM
Quote:Some people lack the ability to nurture their personalities. They don't buy what they want. They don't wear clothes they like. They avoid indulging in food. They don't drink anything but water. It seems as if they are afraid of existing as unique individuals. It is tragic especially when it reaches a pathological state that is both lonely and depressing. But it seems to be the underlying message of The Zero Theorem.
Uhhh...so this guys thinks the meaning of our life is to be a good little consumer and worker bee, and not wanting to be that is "a pathological state" that "lacks individuality"? Sounds pretty much like the opposite of what Terry's said about ZT's stabs at contemporary Capitalism...a theme Terry has done one way or the other at least since his late-70s book Animations of Mortality. In most of his interviews regarding the themes of ZT, he's said that it's about what's wrong with the world today, not so much about what's wrong with Qohen as according to Terry, Cohen's reactions to the world of ZT seem to be the only sane ones.