jerobalalva Brazil is one of my favorite movies of all time it's adapted from George Orwell's 1984. Terry Gilliam has a very strange way of directing his films, he directs his films in such original ways it is something that I admire. This film is one of my favorite movie of all time I really love this film, from its fantastic camera work, amazing script, amazing characters, very good editing, and some of the best visual effects I've ever seen. The story revolves around a mistake from a computer that results in the arresting of an innocent man, so that leads our lead character to find the reason in the bureaucratic world and in the process finds the woman of his dreams. This film is a very original and magnificent experience this film nails every aspect of a good drama, science fiction movie. This movie is a very under-appreciated gem, I really hope people realize its greatness. Overall this is a movie that I really love that has great storytelling, a very good three act structure, and just everything fantastic, go and see it.

eagandersongil The bureaucracy applied to the fiction that conveys the real, how wrong a science fiction movie that has as its theme the most boring thing in the world could go wrong? Many, did not give, quite the contrary, he can criticize at the same time that bothers and enchants for his wealth of detail and his ironic black humor completely enthralling. Terry Gilliam participated in the script of the film, which is said to be confused in his actions, but he is linear and despite creating a dystopian future austadoramente verosimílimo and incredible, where it shows the totality of a state on the market and its Society, sunk in bureaucracy, damaging public service, inhibiting private initiative, turning servers into numbers, demanding goals without working conditions, and living the paranoia of a terrorist attack, its future is appalling and annoying. - Who said the future will be fun? Within this universe we have Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), a public servant who after falling in love with a woman turns out to be confused with a state enemy, Terry comes from month payton, so his humor is black, funny, rough and critical and completely Absurd, may even be swollen, but it is pleasant. Terry's criticism of the totality of the perfect state, for it shows the difficulty of small acts, beyond the search for love, lose of indignity amid state control, the absurd search for beauty, and control. With a gray photograph reminiscent of Blade Runner, he is almost sensuous in his cyberpunk aesthetic mixed with the ordinary, with a wealth of incredible detail reminiscent of "2001- A Space Odyssey" you notice the care of Terry and his team in Every minute of the movie, alias, the art direction of this film is something completely unbelievable, its soundtrack is also touching, and too much house with the movie, its rhythm talks and marries the screen. The performances in general I think weak, Jonathan Pryce even has its moments but does not get to excite Kim Greist is pessima and of niro does not pass feeling some, although its character is great. "Brazil" can be fat, and you will feel the time, but admire the beauty of your art direction and contemplate a complete and sensational criticism putting itself as one of the best black humor movies I have ever seen in my life.

KineticSeoul This is a classic dystopian tale about a average guy with below average looks. Who isn't trying to do anything really heroic for society but seeking his own happiness and pleasure going off into his own world. This is to escape from the bureaucratic world with a beautiful woman. This is a surreal movie with unique visual style and cinematography. Just about every moments in this film is absurd, which adds to the commentary on society. Well at least the director Terry Gilliam's view on society. All the really well timed scenes with it's details add to it's themes of chaos and capitalism, reality vs fantasy. Which really does delve into things for what it is. For instance some viewers might think of movies as a form of escapism but is also haunted by reality which can be a nightmare. It can be a very pessimistic and depressing film but it's creativity, psychological themes makes it highly watchable. This is a film that isn't for everyone like Terry Gilliam's other films. It's a somber and imaginative film that is ahead of it's time.8.3/10

danielphillips97-251-836566 Terry Gilliam's films are often battles, in the case of 'Brazil', Universal Studios, being led by Sid Sheinberg, wanted to change the film to make it more appealing for a commercial audience, but Gilliam resisted. Indeed, it was always meant as a cult film, with several people walking out during test screenings. Gilliam even went as far as to put up an ad saying "Dear Sid Sheinberg, when are you going to release my film?", and put up a photo of Sid Sheinberg on television to show everyone what he looked like, and showed illegal screenings to critics. He nearly had it entirely his way, although a dream sequence in which eyeballs stare up at Sam Lowry from the ground had to be deleted from the film. Perhaps it's Gilliam's uncompromising defiance that made it such a great film.In the tradition of Orwell's '1984' and the collected writings of Franz Kafka, 'Brazil' is a chilling dystopian sci-fi, a satire on bureaucracy, an existentialist horror in the guise of an absurdist farce, and a celebration of the imagination, which blends the comic, tragic, and visionary. It clearly comes out of the 'Monty Python' films, but is much darker, and leaves a powerful and lingering impression. Gilliam's vision is a vivid, bizarre, and madly inventive representation of a bureaucratic hell, which uses absurdity and black humor to portray an oppressive and frightening existence, yet this does not to lighten or diminish the films nightmarish horror, but rather makes it more plausible and multi- dimensional. These comical elements include a hilariously cramped office, chaotically disarrayed pipes and wires, and administrative errors. The protagonist is a dreamer, someone whose ideals are completely at odds with the oppressive world he's living in, and his dreams represent his explosive imagination breaking free of the shackles daily life imposes on him, yet always get impeded by the oppressive horror of Sam's existence, and turn into nightmares, with some truly strange, creepy, and sad imagery. If you find the film incoherent, than perhaps the whole thing's an impressionist nightmare, in which it's the fundamental images, feelings, and ideas that prevail.The final act is where the film takes a turn for the dark, sinister, and dangerous. It fuses symbols of childhood and innocence, with oppression and torture to chilling effect, such as masks of baby faces, and Santa Claus. It suggests that evil can come in the form of your best friend, a common family man, just ordinary people working for a bureaucratic system. It also features a gripping chase sequence, where you feel the options closing in on our doomed protagonist. The ambiguous and thought-provoking ending, while disturbing in a sense, is Gilliam's most definitive statement on imagination triumphing over reality. It will have people debating over whether it's tragic or triumphant, in a way I think it's a metaphor for what Terry Gilliam does for a living, creating gloriously imagined alternatives to our current reality. In fact, the whole film can be seen as an allegory on Gilliam's 'David and Goliath' battle with Universal Studios to get the film released the way he wanted, the small man against the big system.