At first glance one might just say Brazil is a surreal look at "1984" while on hallucinogenics. I would go much further, to say it was a comical anti-utopia, maybe even an homage to East Germany's failed technology production: 2 inch computer monitors all replete with large magnify glasses, with mechanical keyboard interfaces. Season and simmer with Soviet era paranoia. The hysterical Sam Lowry daydreams of flying high above it all, to the rescue of his angel in the clouds, Jill Layton, whose offense was to seek answers for her neighbor, who's good husband was collected in the night in error by Information Retrieval (torture department); she was an embarrassment to the system by reminding them they got it wrong, and a good man was deleted.
In the gray walled offices of the government, one is hermetically sealed off from the terrorist bombs in the restaurants and shopping centers, frequented by the obliviously wealthy. Sam doesn't want to accept a promotion to Information Retrieval, but sees it as a way to reach Jill. But Sam isn't right for the position and in the end he learns: you really can't fight the system. Heating, ventilation, air conditioning and plumbing is a nightmare of it's own. Much scenic beauty were facades, complete with cheerful paranoid platitudes, and vacation adverts of worlds they will never see. I recommend this film for anyone who enjoyed reading 1984, and visited the old DDR while on vacation.
In the gray walled offices of the government, one is hermetically sealed off from the terrorist bombs in the restaurants and shopping centers, frequented by the obliviously wealthy. Sam doesn't want to accept a promotion to Information Retrieval, but sees it as a way to reach Jill. But Sam isn't right for the position and in the end he learns: you really can't fight the system. Heating, ventilation, air conditioning and plumbing is a nightmare of it's own. Much scenic beauty were facades, complete with cheerful paranoid platitudes, and vacation adverts of worlds they will never see. I recommend this film for anyone who enjoyed reading 1984, and visited the old DDR while on vacation.