Brazil
Overview
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Reviews (3)
chadrico (Rated: 10)
One of my all time favourite sci fi movies. Set the bench mark for modern sci fi, should be considered a great like Blade Runner. Great acting, story, soundtrack! 5/5
Filipe Manuel Neto (Rated: 4)
A film that was enough for more than one review: dream, nightmare, utopia and reality.
It was in 1939 that composer and singer-songwriter Ary Barroso released the iconic song “Aquarela do Brasil”. This samba became an icon of Brazilian music and was sung and disseminated by such noble voices ...
misubisu (Rated: 10)
Score: 20/10 A Perfect, Unassailable Masterpiece of Dystopian Imagination
Some films are not merely watched; they are inhabited. Terry Gilliam's Brazil is such a film. It is a towering, terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking vision of a world that feels more prescient with each passin...
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