Contains mature thematic elements, coarse language, some sexual dialogue and brief nudity.
It’s a tall order, but filmmaker Stone has an affinity for troubled loners, as he demonstrated in his excellent 2016 documentary “ Peter and the Farm,” about a sometimes suicidal, sometimes philosophical organic farmer in Vermont. Mostly, the heavy emotional lifting is done by Copley, who never tries to make the film’s subject sympathetic - not exactly, anyway - only understandable. You can buy or rent Colossal for as low as 3.99 to rent or 12.99 to buy on Amazon Prime Video, iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Vudu, and AMC on Demand. There’s also a woman (Amber Rose Mason) whom Ted meets through one of his odd jobs at the local library, and some scenes with her clearly take place only inside Ted’s head. Colossal is currently available to stream with a subscription on Hulu for 6.99 / month, after a 30-Day Free Trial. But director Tony Stone tries, at times replicating Ted’s psyche on screen via dream and hallucination sequences that aren’t entirely helpful. It’s hard to portray that process: the inner life of a madman.
Rather, we watch as the reclusive protagonist’s “impotent rage” at the intrusion of technology into his life slowly evolves from local vandalism to mailbomb-building violence directed at those he perceived to represent the ills of the modern world. Gloria is an out-of-work party girl who leaves New York and moves back to her hometown after getting kicked out of her apartment by her boyfriend. This isn’t a police procedural about the years-long FBI manhunt for Kaczynski, or even a standard serial-killer biopic. In “ Ted K,” Sharlto Copley (“District 9”) delivers a mesmerizing psychological portrait of Unabomber Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, whom we first meet well after he left civilized society to establish himself in a Montana cabin without electricity or running water.
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