Brazil (1985)
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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Waste of time
How sad is this?
What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
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
I like good satire and parody, but the Monty Python style of humor wears me out and just doesn't work for this viewer. The only one I ever came close to liking was 'The Holy Grail'. Watching this picture I tended to zone out from time to time, it played like a stream of random nonsense instead of a coherent story and I just got tired of it very quickly. Still, I hung in there because that's what I do as a prerequisite to commenting on it here on IMDb. I will admit to being amused by Robert De Niro's turn as 'heating engineer' Harry Tuttle, only because I've never seem him do anything so absurd before. And the supervisor attempting to catch all his worker bee employees slacking off was cleverly done, but those moments of genuine humor seemed few and far between. The rest of it was either way over the top or intellectually boring, something one might experience in a nightmarish fever dream. I don't do well with those either.
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.
Terry Gilliam once said that he never even considered his film "Brazil" a science fiction film, believe it or not. This was because it was a film that dealt with issues going on while it was being made, and some of the issues the film addresses are still relevant to some extent.This surreal satire takes place in a bleak, but highly possible, dystopian future. It is full of extremely dark comedy, beautiful, glorious production quality, and a surprisingly disturbing and unhappy ending (unless you watch the "Love Conquers All" version, which I don't recommend).It's a great film to look at, with epic sets and amazing to look at fantasy sequences that really enhance the viewing experience and makes the world that "Brazil" creates a more adventurous and thrilling environment."Brazil" is an amazing piece of filmmaking from a brilliant filmmaker.