#brazil 1985

[theniftycat]

Something about Heaven being monochrome and empty

Something about Hell being too busy

Something about hoarding subversive art in secret

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[ceteradesunt]

Brazil (1985) dir. Terry Gilliam

[cirilee]

movie: brazil (1985) audio: dead finks don't talk - brian eno

[the-chosen-none]

These four things are like thematic cousins to me.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Brazil (1985) has everything! A sweaty, pathetic man. A dirty butch in coveralls. Skeksises with baby doll faces. Terrorism. Ian Holme!

[emetology]

[celluloidsiren]

[neoncl0ckwork]

need a freelance heating engineer to save my ass too

[steampunkforever]

Brazil is like if Kubrick did Cyberpunk but could pull off satire without cruelty. It's whimsical Kafka. It's a long drawn out series of Monty Python gags. It's a ghoulish, pleasant dystopia. It's what I'm pretty sure inspired the Samurai mecha scene in Zack Snyder's revered Sucker Punch.

Brazil, named after the one song that backs most of the movie in many forms The Long Goodbye style, is a retelling of 1984 and 8 1/2 mixed with Kafka and sundry other surrealist modernist dystopias directed by Terry Gilliam. It was originally going to be an modernized retelling of 1984 until someone else adapted 1984 and Gilliam had to change the title from 1984 1/2 to something else. It rocks.

This is a gags film. It's a gizmos film. It's like if someone did The Trial but forgot to remind the set decorators to keep things "bleak." It's a colorful dystopia that still manages to terrify. Depending how monstrous you classify state bureaucracy you could stretch it a bit and call this surrealist horror. This movie answers the question "What if Brave New World was slapstick?"

Gilliam has been an unnamed influence on my life practically since I was born, and only recently was I able to realize the extent of his impact on my perceived reality. Therefore a simple objective positive/negative outlook on this testament to how bad being british is wouldn't be something I could give you. I've been addicted to Gilliam's sort of cinema for as long as I can remember, and so take this into consideration as I say this, but Brazil is very very good.

An aside: I know this is a deathly insult to any italian man with a mustache but Robert Deniro in this looks like he should play a live action 80s Mario. He's even an overalled tradesmen in this. I hate it but its the truth.

Watch this movie to see Jonathan Pryce have the worst time in his life as he spirals down the drain of the quirkiest dystopia you'll ever see.

[electricdreamachine]

"You won't believe this, I know it's going to sound incredible, but I've been dreaming about you. No, not like that. I mean, I love you - in my dreams - I love you. And, uh… Extraordinary, isn't it?"

einstürzende neubauten - stella maris/ victor hugo from a letter to adèle foucher/ sam lowry in brazil (1985) dir. terry gilliam/ we should be well prepared by mary oliver/ marina tsvetaeva in bride of ice: new selected poems

[weirdbird74]

i've come to some sort of revelation

[finalpam8000]

Not to be re-entering my FNAF hyperfixation on main but… WHAT TIMELINE ARE WE LIVING IN WHERE THIS CHARACTER AND THIS FILM ARE NOW DIRECTLY CONNECTED?!?! HUH?!??

[cirilee]

they deserved better 🥺

[polls-showdowns]

Tsukasa Empire (Dr. Stone) V.S. Ministry of Information (Brazil 1985) V.S. The Magnus Institute (The Magnus Archives)

[filmledger]

My name's Lowry. Sam Lowry. I've been told to report to Mr. Warrenn.

Brazil (1985)