Netflix’s Unabomber directed by Janus Metz, explores Kaczynski’s life before and during the events that led to his capture. Jacob Tremblay plays the younger Kaczynski, while Russell Crowe portrays Harvard professor Henry Murray, Shailene Woodley plays FBI agent Joanne Miller and Annabelle Wallis portrays Christiana Morgan, Murray’s academic collaborator.
Born in Chicago in 1942, Kaczynski demonstrated exceptional mathematical ability from an early age. He entered Harvard at 16 before continuing his studies at the University of Michigan, where he earned a master’s degree and a doctorate in mathematics.
Kaczynski became increasingly isolated from society. He spent much of his time reading, hunting and growing plants, while developing increasingly strong opposition to modern technology and industrial society.
Over the years, his targets included universities, airlines and people he associated with technology and the modern industrial system.
The Unabomber manifesto
Kaczynski’s identity remained a mystery for years. That changed in 1995, when he sent a lengthy manifesto titled “Industrial Society and Its Future” to The Washington Post and The New York Times and demanded that it be published. The approximately 35,000-word text laid out his opposition to modern technological society and explored ideas about human freedom, autonomy, and the effects of industrialization.
After reading the manifesto, Patrik noticed similarities between its ideas and the writing she had previously seen from Kaczynski. She brought her concerns to David, who initially struggled to believe that his brother could be responsible for the attacks.
The material gave investigators a crucial lead. After years of attacks and an extensive investigation, Kaczynski was now directly connected to the manifesto and the writings that could help identify him as the person behind the Unabomber case.
Shailene Woodley in Unabomber —Courtesy of NetflixThe search of the property gave investigators a trove of evidence. Inside, they found bomb-making materials, a typewriter, coded diary entries and approximately 40,000 pages of handwritten notes, along with a completed bomb.
While in prison, Kaczynski was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia by a psychiatrist who interviewed him. He rejected the idea that he was mentally incapable of understanding his actions. In a 1999 interview with TIME, he said he was certain he was sane.
What happened to Kaczynski at Harvard?
“Christiana was the co-creator of the Harvard school of psychology where the tests on Ted Kaczynski took place,” says Wallis, who plays Morgan in the movie. “Murray and Morgan were collaborators at the time and together devised the highly controversial stress tests used on Harvard students. I was fascinated to learn about the extent of her involvement.”
The full Harvard file on Kaczynski remains classified, making it impossible to know exactly what Murray concluded from the experiments.
However, Metz says the experiments were designed to break down participants who knew very little about what they were being subjected to, and that the filmmakers wanted to show them as “likely a piece of the puzzle.”
“We also know from Ted Kaczynski's own journals that he wanted revenge from feeling disrespected and rejected, which these experiments could have contributed to,” he says.
Russell Crowe and Jacob Tremblay in Unabomber —Courtesy of Netflix
For Tremblay, one of the challenges of playing Kaczynski was the lack of detailed information about his early life.
Tremblay listened to recordings of Kaczynski’s interrogation after his arrest to study his speech patterns and watched footage of him as an adult, noting his stiff posture. I then put my own youthful, nervous and softer spin on that,” Tremblay says.
How accurate is the Netflix movie?
Unabomber is grounded in documented events from Kaczynski’s life, but the film also takes creative liberties with gaps in the historical record.
For Metz, the film was also an opportunity to explore parts of Kaczynski’s story that are less familiar to audiences.
“In developing the film, we found that the psychological experiments conducted on Ted Kaczynski during his time at Harvard were unknown to most people, some were not even aware he attended Harvard,” Metz says. “While our film doesn't offer a complete biography, we chose to present a filmic take on his story and a narrative opening into the mind of Ted Kaczynski."
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