I was curious about this one, but I expected some sort of psychological analysis, and... honestly, if that's what you're looking for, this isn't your movie. Two Timelines It starts well. We watch the FBI struggle to identify and catch the Unabomber (Jacob Tremblay) while following his first years in college, his relationship with his family, and how everything seems to build toward something. He has many issues, and they all seem to feed his paranoia. Meanwhile, the agents are turning on each other, making accusations as they struggle to catch the terrorist. The tension keeps building. Admiration Falls into Humiliation Ted's relationship with the professor (Russell Crowe) is one of the movie's many creative liberties. It's not the worst one, but it leads us toward a simplified explanation of something much bigger and much more complicated. He gets a big shock: he trusted the professor, who made Ted feel special, only to discover he was essentially a study su...
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