The Net (2003)
- HD 1080
- Runtime: 121m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: de
- Country: Germany
- Director: Lutz Dammbeck
- Stars: Eva Mattes, Tom Vogt, Lutz Dammbeck, Stewart Brand, John Brockman
- Production_studio: ARTE, Lutz Dammbeck Filmproduktion, SWR
- providers: GuideDoc
- The The Net is featured in the top rankings of 2003
- #40 in Top Documentary Movies of 2003
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.