Brazil

[Bastable]

Brazil by Terry Gilliam, anyone seen it? I had it recommended to me and am going to see it in a day or so, but i wanted peoples opinions first.

[Uncle Hank]

Brazil is excellent; Terry Gilliam's zany and terrifying vision of a future where bureaucracy reigns supreme, where it seems you have to file a form to do the slightest thing, and nearly half of everything in existence is superfluous. Not only is it original and nearly unparalleled in being humorous and horrifying simultaneously; but it doesn't adhere to many conventional Hollywood methods. Definitely worth a watch, in my opinion, it's a pretty essential experience.

(obviously due to my icon I may appear biased; please don't let this turn you away from it)

[Hit The North]

I agree, it's brilliant. A surreal riposte to Orwell's 1984.

[Bastable]

Okay, can't wait to see it!:)

[Uncle Hank]

Hope you agree with me on its brilliance. If you don't I'd love to know what you felt was wrong with it and so on and so forth. Enjoy!

[Dean]

Yes, brilliant! "Return I will to old Braziiiiiil!"

I love the film SO MUCH.

[Voice_of_Reason]

Terry Gilliam is a genius. Pure Genius

[Bastable]

I just watched it a while ago. Loved it! Loved it! Loved it!

The funniest movie I've seen in a long while!

[Digitalism]

I didn't think it was all that. In terms of the vision it is indeed well imagined, but there were scenes (especially with DeNiro) that were absolutely boring. It's visionary, I'll give it that, but it's just slow slow slow, the humor didn't do it for me and that factor had to have been "enjoyed" to enjoy the film overall - I didn't, so I'll say that's why I didn't fully find it brilliant, great ending though..which legitimizes the actual "satire" of the film throughout. Although I always give certains films a rewatch. I thought V for Vendetta, essentially the same thing, was far exceeding, both on the intellectual and entertainment level.

[Ultra-Violence]

I liked Brazil I wonder what technocrats thought about it? hmmmm:D

[ckaihatsu]

*** WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW ***


If anyone could ever find it possible to fit humor into a dystopian work of fiction, 'Brazil' is it...!

The vision of postwar bureaucratic / technocratic hell-on-earth couldn't have had a better ending -- in the end the system couldn't even get the satisfaction of executing him because the system had already fucked him up so well by getting him fixated on his internal dream, to the exclusion of sanity, even.


Chris



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