In auteur Terry Gilliam’s latest opus Zero Theorem, a new religion has cropped up in its bleak future world: The Church of Batman the Redeemer. The film hearkens back to Brasil, where corporate greed and government bureaucracy have strangled individual expression, reducing people to hollow drones, living out shallow existences. In a recent interview he sat down to discuss the meaning behind the creative decision.

We have to believe in something, don’t we? And I think comic book heroes are the new apostles, the new prophets. They’re all there!

Ridiculous or not, I would go out and watch the film just for that kind of social commentary. I’m very much looking forward to it.

Source: IGN

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