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Release Date: 01 April, 2003 Retail Price: $19.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (16 total) |
Brazil Reviews
Absurdity meets Dry Humor + No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!
Terry Gilliam has worked a truely an imaginative tragi-comedy. This is a film that will go around your expectations and show you something completely unique (I've avoided at all cost saying something "completely different"). Enter a world where you have to fill out a form to get a form to fill out...in triplicate. Big government where the left hand doesn't know the right hand exists...
San Lowry is a bureaucrat-drone with a tiny automated apartment, a distant mother who enjoys recreational plastic surgery and a never-ending flow of paper to push around the desk he shares --through a wall--with another bureaucrat. You have to see it to believe it. Sam adds some exitement to his humdrum life by imagining fantastic light-infused scenes starring a winged hero--perhaps human potential, his own evaporating opportunities as he ages, or...perhaps someone he has met.
While going through the efforts to correct a simple mistake which apparently cost a meek family man his life, Sam rubs elbows with a skillful cultural terrorist who delights in sticking it to the system. It doesn't take long for Sam to become mixed up in events he's really not too sure about. Throughout he seems an average guy who can't really figure out whether he's here or there, and through attempting to make right for his bureaucracy, becomes a victim of it. But a least he finds love too!
This is not a simple clean tale with an easy ending, you do have to think. Worth seeing for the lavish imagination scenes alone. Dry humor meets absurdity. Welcome to Sam Lowry's world.
Don't waste your money
Really this satirical take on Orwells 1984 is nothing more than a messy arthouse flick. I first saw this movie back in the 80s, my ex-brotherlinlwa was raving about it,to be honest I thought it wasa load of crap back.
Acouple of weeks ago, I picked it up for ten bucks at movie warehouse, and thought I would give it another go, well I really struggled to stay awake when I watched it last sunday, and my verdict is the same as it was back in the 80s, "a load of old toss". Don't waste your money.
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