Sam Lowry has anybody seen Sam Lowry?

[Blaggard]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRRS7Ak4xlg

I would like to pose a question is Brazil a morally sound judgement of our times, or is it just meandering on a path that might appear as moral, but lacks the vigour to be so?

[WanderingLands]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRRS7Ak4xlg

I would like to pose a question is Brazil a morally sound judgement of our times, or is it just meandering on a path that might appear as moral, but lacks the vigour to be so?

Damn copyright. Couldn't see the movie.

[Blaggard]

Synopsis

At the start of the film the machine makes a typo after a fly falls into it, and flags up Tuttle instead of Buttle, the film is basically about the rings the bureaucracy runs around in trying to clear up its own mess. Buttle is a freelance plumber, something that is strictly forbidden, Tuttle on the other hand is an innocent man who is brought in by information retrieval and subsequently dies of a massive heart attack. Because his heart condition wasn't mentioned on his forms, so under extreme torture his heart gives out. Meanwhile Sam Lowry tries to extricate the love of his life from the situation who witnessed the whole affair. Being as she is the only one who knows of the corpulent bureacracies mistake, she is public enemy no 1 and labelled as a terrorist. It's never made clear if the terrorism though is part of the governments means to divert the population away from its extreme ineptitude. There is an overwhelming theme of capitalism gone bad throughout the film. It's basically Terry Gilliams version of 1984.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh2aJ0J8nWg

It's a love story against the backdrop of huge bloated bureaucratic nightmare...

Oh and Buttle is played by Robert De Niro, he's a sort of hero figure in the film who swoops in to save Sam when his heating goes bad after Central Services (the governmental dept responsible for all your home needs) completely cocks up his apartment and hence his life.

The reason it's called Brazil is never really made clear but I suppose if you read the lyrics it makes sense.

As you can imagine from Terry Gilliam who did Twelve Monkeys and so on it's a brilliantly imaginative and subversive parody of American/English culture.

Brazil, where hearts were entertaining june
We stood beneath an amber moon
And softly murmured "someday soon"
We kissed and clung together

Then, tomorrow was another day
The morning found me miles away
With still a million things to say
Now, when twilight dims the sky above
Recalling thrills of our love
There's one thing I'm certain of
Return I will to old brazil

[instrumental]

Then, tomorrow was another day
The morning found me miles away
With still a million things to say
Now, when twilight dims the sky above
Recalling thrills of our love
There's one thing that I'm certain of
Return I will to old brazil
That old brazil
Man, it's old in brazil
Brazil, brazil

It's one of those films that you must see in your life. If not for your sake for the sake of clever philosophy and the ever present danger of government.

[WanderingLands]

Well, it must be a fun and entertaining movie then.

[Blaggard]

I wouldn't call it fun, I might say it is entertaining, but fun no, it's horrible idea about a dystopian government that we seem ever more and more to be edging towards, the fact it was written so long ago only goes to show how much of a genius Terry Gilliam is, since he predicted pretty much the next 20 years of politics. That said this forum is running stupidly slow atm, so I will have to take a break. Anon film lovers.

[Blaggard]

Gonna bump this one last time see if anyone is interested in the implications of this film, if not well then I'll have to let it slide, as no one has seen it cares about the vices discussed therein. And I am of course returning to a country that is old Brazil. Disappointing I thought at least someone would mention something but clearly not. Such is discussion the things you find interesting, are not the things others do, but return they do to old Brazil.