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Movie Reviews of Brazil
Movie Review: Very Interesting
Summary: 4 Stars
My husband has always been obsessed with movies like this. However, I could never much see the point of them, until I watched this. It is a very interesting and tense vision of a futuristic (sort of) world. The acting and storyline are great and I couldn't stop watching, even though I was on pins and needles and in a panic for certain of the characters. So I can see why this is a classic, and a kind of cult movie. My only problem with this film is that it's pretty long. I have trouble finding the time to sit all the way through. But that makes the DVD great, since I can pause or stop and come back later. I will watch this again. I didn't particularly like the ending, but that's just me. Overall, it is great and worthy of its status of cult classic.Movie Review: I hope this is not a Vision of our future!
Summary: 5 Stars
The sad part of this whole thing, is that I see more & more of our modern society in this film everytime I see it.
The part where peopel are billed for their interigations and imprisionment is already being done in Arizona.
Of course Stalin used a simular scheme to make people serve a second term in the GULAG.
Movie Review: Timeless
Summary: 5 Stars
I have viewed Brazil on the big scrren whenever I have had the chance. With a newly puchased HDTV I decided I must own this cinematic masterpiece. It doesn't dissapoint. What amazes me is its political currency. Terrorism, personal surveillance, Big Brotherness, even cosmetic plastic surgery all seem familiar facts of life today. The future painted by Terry Gilliam is here now. The only downside to the adventure you will experience is that the tune "Brazil" will haunt your mind for weeks if not months after your viewing. Movie Review: Simply Amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
I had heard about "Brazil" and was familiar with Terry Gilliam of Monty Python fame. I figured that there were a lot of possibilities with this movie but I never expected what I watched last night. I am still trying to sort it out but I know enough to know that I watched a great movie.
Frankly, I had toyed with getting this movie several years ago but I held off due to the steep prices I kept finding. I bought a used copy at a more reasonable price and found that I got the three CD set. I generally just watch the movie with little or no regard for the extras. "Brazil" is unique enough that I may make an exception with this set.
My first impression is that "Brazil" is a film that looks like what the movie version of "1984" might have looked like if it were made with the film technology of its' title (1984) but with all other technology limited to the year it was copyrighted (1949). I hope that makes sense because I was bewildered by the amazing sets and, to a lesser extent, the special effects. Yet I kept seeing the technology of my parent's era (and I'm 55). As the movie went on I began to enjoy this retro-science fiction movie that shows the real and imagined dangers of the world Orwell tried to warn us about. The over-welming bureaucracy, the signs of Big Brother everywhere, the paranoia of the opressed as well as the opressors, etc... The story swims around in a variety of directions in a world where to think, say or do anything out of the ordinary becomes dangerous. However, it may not be quite so bad given what passes for "ordinary" in this world.
I admit to sensing a time or two that "Brazil" may be too long. If so, I will likely prefer the Producer's cut rather than the 142 minute Director's cut I watched last night. I had started by stating that I had heard of "Brazil" before. After watching it, I can't believe that I haven't heard MORE about it.
Movie Review: Christmas In Dystopia
Summary: 4 Stars
Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" is an extremely ambitious effort brimming with socio-political criticism. It is filled with intense, chaotic images of a highly centralized, technological, authoritarian society gone horribly sour. It is 1984 brought to flesh, and done with the Gilliam touch where dreams are the only way to escape a reality that is completely insane. What is disturbing is that this world looks so familiar...the endless paperwork to do the simplest things...the failure of gadgetry to make life easier...bureaucracy failing to take into account people...nepotism, vanity, the constant threat of "terrorists" to unite people in fear...mindless consumerism as religion...yes, Gilliam's kinetic visuals are indeed center stage, but much of the world in this film is a prophecy and funhouse refraction of our own world. Welcome to fascism: welcome to Brazil.
I would have loved to see the look on face of the studio execs who had to confront this mindfreak when perhaps expecting something more along the lines of "Time Bandits".