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Plot: Terry Gilliam's 1985 film is a surrealist nightmare of a low-level bureaucrat in a dismal world of the near future.
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MCT:November 28, 2008''Listen, this old system of yours could be on fire and I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a 27b/6... Bloody paperwork.''
A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.
Jonathan Pryce: Sam Lowry
Robert De Niro: Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle
Katherine Helmond: Mrs. Ida Lowry
Ian Holm: Mr. M. Kurtzmann
Brazil is without a doubt the one of the best Dystopia's out there. Again form the mind of the weirdly, bizarre and diverse Terry Gilliam.
Jonathan Pryce is amazing as he plays the normal ordinary everyday man who becomes caught up in a world that eclipses his mundane existence and offers something greater.
Performances have some of the best British actors including Ian Holm, Ian Richardson, Jim Broadbent, Michael Palin. Even a stand out role from a young Robert De Niro in one of his more unique roles.
The dream sequences are out of this world. Visually perfect and a contrast to the boring, soulless real futuristic world. The imagination is immense as is the message and depth that hides between the lines. Terry Gilliam has crafted a film which not only has a stab at politics, at the current state of our world, the boxed in situation of people who become trapped when they cannot follow their dreams but he also has very cleverly made us the audience see a bit of ourselves inside Jonathan Pryce's character Sam Lowery. Everyone of us has a part of ourselves that aches to be released yet can lay dormant for years.
Music wise and visual wise as I've said cannot be criticized. For a film done in 1985 this is ahead of its time. Terry Gilliam may not have had the best luck in his film choices but this offering he can be proud off for now, for years to come with its powerful tones.
A Dystopia classic, in every sense of the word. The American Version has an alternative ending to the normal version. Which offers a happier ending rather than the realistic shocking one we get normally. -
MCT:July 3, 2008want to see this because it won best picture with the LAFC
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MCT:November 26, 2008The Terry Gilliam masterpiece, Brazil is a comic fantasy-nightmare portraying a 1984-esque future in which Big Brother is definitely watching. The film suggests no particular time, boasting a retro style that gives it an ominous timelessness. Like Ridley Scott's Blade Runner or Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Brazil succeeds precisely because it presents a grimy future with real similarities to the present, where technology and efficiency lead to greater government interference and bureaucracy. Brazil also adds the element of comedy into the mix. Some of the zaniest scenes involve Robert De Niro, playing against type as the hilarious terrorist Harry Tuttle. Visually, the film is a psychedelic wonder, with such indelible images as the bleak metropolis that launches from the ground, disrupting the idyllic dreams of unlikely hero Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce). The plot is complex, but Brazil is without doubt one of the greatest and most startling flight of sustained imagination in cinema.
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MCT:November 16, 2008
This is the world we live in when everybody just does there job. This is the artistic manifistation of the women behind the desk that will not help you. Utterly brillian. Funny and Scary. What a ite to see and Bob play's to me his most enduring role.
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