Set in a post-industrial future, Zenith envisions a humanity genetically altered to experience perpetual happiness, stripped of much of its language. One individual observes, “What you cannot express in language does not exist in human minds.” This haunting premise underpins the nightmarish vision of writer-director Vladan Nikolic, who drew inspiration from a series of experiments conducted by psychology professor Stanley Milgram—designed to test whether participants would obey an authority figure even when orders directly conflicted with their conscience. Challenging and elusive, Zenith offers a bleak meditation on the human condition, suggesting that an all-pervasive paranoia may, in fact, be fully justified.

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