'Totalitarians': Woolly takes a risk and stumbles badly with a murky political satire

At the start of "The Totalitarians," a young man appears before us in a knitted mask that obscures his mouth and renders his opening speech pretty much unintelligible. "Ffmmmmm bff llvvmmm," he mumbles as the giant screen that surrounds him buzzes with blurry images, like a TV on the fritz.