Why do we do anything?
Why did you decide to see this movie?
Why did you choose to go to this website?
Is it because we enjoy doing these things?
Because we think that were supposed to do them?
Or maybe, its something new were trying for the first time?
Its only finally inThe Zero Theoremthat it can be proven.
None of this ultimately matters (as is confirmed in each film) in the end.
Its all about how far control can be taken and followed.
Its all about how crucial and important Big Brother is.
Later on, Qohens door is covered with varying locks, much like the segments of the brain.
Production design is seamlessly mirroring how the brain works, and you feel it surging through the film.
All of the pomp and circumstance cant hide the subjugation bubbling underneath.
Whats left is a feeling of optimistic hopelessness.
The entire film is just a detour down this rabbit hole of bureaucracy.
He says back to Central Services, Im a bit of a stickler for paperwork.
Where would we be if we didnt follow the proper procedures?
James Cole (Bruce Willis) is told while institutionalized that hes here because of the system.
Qohen works for ManCom, the Orwellian company du jour, and mindlessly programs away crunching entities.
He often feels left out, alone, and displaced.
He constantly tells people that his name is with Q, no U; he is himself an anomaly.
And if your playing field was the size of Texas, rather than a six-by-six grid.
It cant be done.
Scenes show him constantly getting shoved out of frame or being pushed out of place.
Its the same symbol of anarchy thats beyond present in12 Monkeyswhere references to the simians are everywhere.
All of this seems like it might be a big game that Management is playing on him.
Hes messing with Qohen and he doesnt want him to finish.
There are all of these hoops for him to jump through like the rest of our mentally divergent heroes.
Qohen is going insane because he feels that he doesnt have a choice.
Pretty early on, its clear that Qohen is doomed with the elegiac score often underscoring his direness.
Here, its Qohen going into these fantasies with Bainsley to escape the bleak world around him.
Everyone has coping mechanisms that become more and more crucial.
The super-virus will never be stopped.
This cyclical game will forever go on.
Its our mentally divergent heroes that must shoulder the burden.
Time and time again though, its love that ends up working.
Lets just hope that the universe doesnt get sucked into a black hole of nothingness before then.
It doesnt matter anyway.
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