Extra of a movie essay - of the sort pioneered by Orson Welles and Chris Marker - than a normal documentary, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck's The Web: The Unabomber, the LSD and the Web begins with the everyday format and construction of a nonfiction movie, and a single topic (the life and instances of mail bomber Ted Kaczynski). From that thematic springboard, Dammbeck branches out omnidirectionally, segueing right into a sequence of thematic riffs and variants on such marginally-related topics as: the historical past of our on-line world, terrorism, utopian beliefs, LSD, the Central Intelligence Company, and Cuckoo's Nest creator Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.
