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Brazil (1985)

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Director:

Terry Gilliam

Starring:

Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Michael Palin, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Jim Broadbent, Ian Richardson

Genres:

Sci-Fi, Action-Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Origin:

United Kingdom

Certificate:

M

Running Time:

142 min

Brazil

synopsis


BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, co-written by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an excellent Jonathan Pryce) to reexamine what he wants out of life. He decides to fight the totalitarian system in his search for freedom--and the woman he loves. The terrific, offbeat cast features Robert De Niro as a renegade heating engineer; Katherine Helmond as Sam's ever-younger mother; Michael Palin as a frightened worker bee terrified of upsetting the status quo; Bob Hoskins as a vengeful Central Services employee; Jim Broadbent as a wacko plastic surgeon; the wonderful Ian Holm as Sam's nerve-ridden, pitiful boss, afraid of his own signature; and Kim Greist as the rebel Sam falls for. The look of BRAZIL is relentless, overwhelming, and outrageously spectacular. Giant monoliths rise from the street; government offices are a network of computers, pneumatic tubes, and narrow hallways built with Nazi-like precision; and apartment complexes are a maze of washed-out greys and numbers, all frighteningly uniform. The terrorist explosions actually bring color into this dull, monochramatic world. BRAZIL is a nightmare vision of the future, yet also hysterically funny and incisive, one of the most inventive, influential, and important films of the 1980s.

member reviews

 
Interesting work from a visionary director

21 January 2009
member rating

Somewhat of a nod to cinema and culture, I found this whacked out mind trip into a dystopic, 1984-esque future strangely enjoyable. It's very Gilliam. People say its his best work but I disagree. Still worth a look though. I didn't think the protagonist Sam Lowry was very likable, and his relationship with Jill felt fraudulent. It's a little dated. The cardboard-like production design is odd but that's Gilliam style. Worth rewatching and pondering, I'm sure there's a deeper meaning in there somewhere.


 
 

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