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Brazil (1985)

December. 18,1985
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7.9
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R
| Comedy Science Fiction

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

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dubwize
1985/12/18

Incredible mind journey of dreams nightmares and futuristic Orwellian red tape driven bureaucracy. A movie not for entertainment but for making a person think beyond the usual. Jonathon Pryce plays the erratic and bumbling Sam Lowry character to a perfection that emanates perpetually in the mind in relation to the future of humankind. So many great cameo appearances and such brilliant philosophical concepts translated onto film makes this a standout MUST SEE for the time it was made.One of my best films of all time which features concepts of state sponsored terror, false flags, Orwellian surveillance state and a crumbling society being preferential to an educated informed public.This movie although with hints of 1984, stands alone as one of the BEST and Brilliantly made movies of all time in it's own right. Perfectly cast, brilliantly acted and thought provoking with it's content. Well deserved 10/10

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Fletcher Conner
1985/12/19

Brazil is one of the strangest movies I have ever seen, yet it is not out of character for Terry Gilliam. Jonathan Pryce stars as a mid level bureaucrat in a dystopian world that is a cross between 1984 and the DMV. In this fiscally-conscious big brother government that charges prisoners for their interrogations, there is a form for everything and the bureaucracy dominates all aspects of life. The plot is meandering and plays second fiddle to the absurdist aspects of the movie.There are no likable characters, so there is no reason for the viewer to care what happens to anyone. There are a few interesting characters, namely Robert De Niro and Bob Hoskins as the two opposite sides of the central air repair business. Ultimately, not much actually happens, and a fair bit of what happens is simply absurd side plots that go nowhere and add nothing to the story.

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nikolavidovic3
1985/12/20

Member?It's amazing how many things Gilliam got right. The food, the forever increasing bureaucracy, the mistyfication of knowledge, the silent revolution, terrorism being a sub-culture basically.The world we live in.

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eagandersongil
1985/12/21

The bureaucracy applied to the fiction that conveys the real, how wrong a science fiction movie that has as its theme the most boring thing in the world could go wrong? Many, did not give, quite the contrary, he can criticize at the same time that bothers and enchants for his wealth of detail and his ironic black humor completely enthralling. Terry Gilliam participated in the script of the film, which is said to be confused in his actions, but he is linear and despite creating a dystopian future austadoramente verosimílimo and incredible, where it shows the totality of a state on the market and its Society, sunk in bureaucracy, damaging public service, inhibiting private initiative, turning servers into numbers, demanding goals without working conditions, and living the paranoia of a terrorist attack, its future is appalling and annoying. - Who said the future will be fun? Within this universe we have Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), a public servant who after falling in love with a woman turns out to be confused with a state enemy, Terry comes from month payton, so his humor is black, funny, rough and critical and completely Absurd, may even be swollen, but it is pleasant. Terry's criticism of the totality of the perfect state, for it shows the difficulty of small acts, beyond the search for love, lose of indignity amid state control, the absurd search for beauty, and control. With a gray photograph reminiscent of Blade Runner, he is almost sensuous in his cyberpunk aesthetic mixed with the ordinary, with a wealth of incredible detail reminiscent of "2001- A Space Odyssey" you notice the care of Terry and his team in Every minute of the movie, alias, the art direction of this film is something completely unbelievable, its soundtrack is also touching, and too much house with the movie, its rhythm talks and marries the screen. The performances in general I think weak, Jonathan Pryce even has its moments but does not get to excite Kim Greist is pessima and of niro does not pass feeling some, although its character is great. "Brazil" can be fat, and you will feel the time, but admire the beauty of your art direction and contemplate a complete and sensational criticism putting itself as one of the best black humor movies I have ever seen in my life.

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