Unabomber (2026, Janus Metz)

"Ted Kaczynski offers us one of the great case studies in worthwhile notions and piss-poor execution. It’s hard to look at his ideas and not see some value; industrial society does kind of suck, so it’s no wonder he’s been picked up in certain corners of the internet as a not-entirely-ironic cult hero. And reasonable people found things to like about Industrial Society and Its Future before the Unabomber TikTok edits, too. “The argument Kaczynski puts forth is fundamentally quite right,” Haruki Murakami writes in his book Underground, a journalistic appraisal of the 1995 Tokyo sarin attack. “Many parts of the social system in which we belong and function do indeed aim at repressing the attainment of individual autonomy.” However, as most of us know, Kaczynski also killed three people and injured nearly two dozen others — a pretty difficult square to circle when considering his net contribution to the 20^th century. But the 21^st century is starting to look a lot different from the 20^th, and radicalization is practically a commonplace. As such, now is really the best time to be considering the Ted Kaczynski phenomenon: there’s a lot his story can teach us about the potential boundaries of intellectual exploration, the role trauma plays in perverting otherwise brilliant people, and what praxis really ought to look like. You’ll find none of that in Januz Metz’s film Unabomber, though. It’s a feature-length Mindhunter ripoff that strips away anything unique to Kaczynski in favor of generalizations worthy of America’s Most Wanted."

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