Brazil Tried to Warn You - Literally (Me) 1984

[@hackenbush1817]

Come to Brazil

[@fadiuana]

shit, for 1 hour

[@Brutal_Warlord]

we have full womè èt goobragaõ

[@heliorosa8148]

Brazil mentioned. LET'S GOOOO

[@dorjedriftwood2731]

I’m curious why you choose the phrase “superhero” rather than an Angel or “demigod” it seems to me that there is a transcendent quality to these dreams a suggestion that the romance between the girl and himself is a spiritually fated. This then contrasts between the nihilism of a A-moral world where there is no shame or virtue because goodness itself the absolute goodness of God or a undergirding benevolence means that there is no value or meaning to do anything well or to put one’s heart into anything because there is nothing greater than oneself besides an incompetent bureaucracy. In short his dream is a world where God exists and reality is one where it does not. I will point out that Nature and Natural Beauty, Peace, Tranquility, Healing, Beauty, Inspiration, Serenity, Freedom, Love, Compassion and Joy, and Sexuality (being the creation of new life). Are all potential synonyms for God and that all of these are absent in Brazil. The notion of connection between couples and the beauty of intimacy and connection, which creates a sense of peace and security that comes from the Union of masculine and feminine taking care of complementing eachother. Again this is opposed to the insecure atomized lonlely chaos which is absent of any peace, intamacy beauty or serenity and the like. I think it is a very important aspect to realize that anything which could be called transcendent has been purged from the world and that his dream is not of being something better exactly but living in a world defined by transcendence and beauty. Weather you believing in God or not you must admit that the history of nearly all narrative before the last three centuries is allegory for our relationship with the sacred and how to established it that relationship through living a heroic life. The film isn’t bleak if you understand what it’s meant to be pointing to what you yourself have, you have a soul, a power within you that tells you what goodness is what beauty is and what truth is. Brazil is the portrayal of a world where everyone and everything has forgotten this sacred aspect of humanity where there is only gain and loss of power but without the transcendent sacred aspect of being power is ruthlessly nihilistic. If you reflect on the fact that each and every one of us knows Beauty is Good, Truth is Good, That Virtue is Good and that we would be hard pressed to forget it. That many would rather die then surrender these things and the world of Brazil May loom like Damocles sword but that it should because we should never forget what we have Inherently. As someone who has dedicated there life to a particular spiritual scriptural tradition, I would remind everyone that goodness is enhanced by benevolent acts through inspiration as much as it is by cruelty through revulsion. That it is a mistake to fail to make use of the hard times as much as the good times, to only side with what pleases us and not recognize the utility of what troubles us. Both sides are of equal merit, we should remember difficulty, strife and struggle temper oneself to fight for something better and that being a witness to our trauma is to calibrate the true worth of what is joyous.

[@datadavis]

Maybe if i dont get robbedmurdered

[@TaaKissa]

The only thing that can rival a British mans ability to write dystopian fiction is the British governments ability to replicate it.

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[@enochroot9438]

@@timberwolfmountaineer873 Brilliant

[@enochroot9438]

so true

[@TheRealCasadaro]

😂

[@subtledemisefox]

Trust me, it's extremely relevant to the US government as well. Equal parts incompetent and malevolent.

[@eduardoqquina1261]

A man bursts into tears... He says "But Doctor...I already live in Brazil!"

[@jingalls9142]

I am pagliowry!

[@Thurgenev]

gênio

[@vee-bee-a]

[Canned Laughter is heard in the back-ground.]

[@tau-5794]

Good joke.

[@ferrisbueller9991]

ah, bring in the clowns

[@HorrorCritical]

Brazil(1985) has to be one of the most underrated sci-fi dystopian movies. I like how it satires the bleak 1984 world in a dark comedic tone

[@scamlikely9964]

Der Todesking was better.

[@socotroquito2007]

Is my favorite , dystopian retro-future movie , my take is more a Kafkaesque , Oneiric -nightmarish technocratic tyranny….

[@sxb2andtheotherguys]

Man, Brazil made me so angry. It completely falls apart in the 3rd act

[@yggdrasil2]

Small correction: The alternative title for Brazil is 1984 1/2. 1985 is the name of an unifficial sequel book.

[@adamlane6453]

I am taken aback that there is at least one other person in the world who knows how to use word "underrated". I appreciate it! It seems like words just don't mean anything anymore. "Underrated", "literally", "ironically", "GOAT (greatest of all time)" are just a few examples of words so commonly missed that they border on utter meaninglessness. What happened to a concern for mutual intelligibility? Do people not speak to be understood? We may as well just toss out all rules and definitions and start speaking in gibberish if we are no longer concerned about meaning and understanding.

[@davidrains3918]

Stories about a dystopian future aren’t fiction after all

[@tgillson3093]

"the buck doesnt stop with anyone, it just gets passed around until everyone forgets" well if that does t sum up the Birtish Gov I dont know what does

[@ShrexyGuy]

If it helps, it's not just the British government. Us Yankees aren't doing too well either

[@benwherlock9869]

I watch this just days after the British sub postmaster scandal, where a dodgy computer programme resulted in people going to prison or being told they had to pay back 'stolen money' which was never actually stolen.

[@TheTuttle99]

Well i gotta look that up now

[@Stroheim333]

@@TheTuttle99 Probably the worst legal scandal in British history. Not even surpassed by anything in the 18th or 19th centuries.

[@fastfishtoo4991]

That reminds me of Australia's robodebt tragedy. Computerised fining system to the country's poorest people on the dole, thousands of incorrect fines went out, people killed themselves over it, headed by Australia's worst prime minister Scott Morrison (stiff competition but he managed to earn the superlative) before he took the top job.

[@JeremySayers38]

​@@TheTuttle99It is the UK Post Office operating system called HORIZON. It was well known it was faulty for over 10 years. 3 suicides are linked to it and over 3000 "fraud judgements". Hope this helps your search. The people in charge are truly scum.

[@PORRRIDGE_GUN]

I am in a similar predicament . Recently I received a computer generated letter telling me I had been overpaid £4000 in the last 11 months. I demanded an explanation from a human being, especially considering I was off sick for 9 of those months and had my pay reduced to zero by the last 2 months. Err, we'll look into it. Well 4 months and 3 subject matter experts later, they still can't explain it. Point to note: My employer uses Horizon and Fujitsu systems. Just like the Post Office.

[@Tonyblack261]

My favourite film of all time. I have watched it more than any other film and still find new things each time.

[@fraterseamus]

Gilliam's depictions of endless plastic surgery were far more prescient than anyone back then could have believed. Much like Ideocracy, Brazil seems more like a documentary than fiction these days 😏

[@judsongaiden9878]

How is it that the left-wing Terry Gilliam and the right-wing Mike Judge ended up criticizing basically the same thing?

[@fraterseamus]

@@judsongaiden9878 perhaps some societal issues transcend political ideology? 🤔

[@Joe-z3n]

@@judsongaiden9878horeshoe theory?

[@morganespud7432]

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is one of my favourite movies of all time and I rarely hear anyone suggest it, thank you for trying to spread the word about it, it's so underrated, even among Gilliam's fans I found.

[@adamblackman6660]

Been a fan since I was a little kid. Such a great film! We used to rent it from library.

[@drygordspellweaver8761]

It was always a great film as a kid

[@enochroot9438]

Never thought of this as Christmas film but definetley has as many credentials as Die Hard has to claim to be a Christmas movie. One of my favourite films that has stayed with me over the decades, can't help humming the Brazil tune when faced with bureaucracy, whenever I see the lip filled botox horrors on the high street my mind always goes straight to the seen in this videos thumbnail...looks like it all came true

[@DeepEye1994]

Ah, Brazil The movie that since 2011 never made me look at tube systems and piping the same way again

[@cinnful1]

Brazil is in my top 10 of all time. Gilliam brought about a vision of the world we really live in, incompetence rules the day and dreams are our escape. A well made deep dive into the movie, I enjoyed your take.

[@rotpeter9148]

I refuse to believe that Gilliam hadn't read or seen 1984.

[@0therun1t21]

Brazil is the tape that took out my VCR. Why does everything in this movie have to be so dang beautiful? Retrofuture Steam Deco Awesome ending to yoir video, thank you!

[@jaykaye594]

Bob Hoskins was drunk filming his scenes and scared De Niro.

[@TomNode]

Great review man, good job 👏🏼

[@BucketHeadianHagg]

Brazil, Kafka, Naked Lunch, Dark Backward, Big Man Japan are just a few of the strangest and best movies ive ever seen in my entire life, and every single one of them have such deep meaning for every day life.

[@judsongaiden9878]

Ever see Freaked, Bad Channels, or Nothing but Trouble?

[@BucketHeadianHagg]

@@judsongaiden9878 omg NOTHING BUT TROUBLE! “I love you Debruhhhhhh” 😂 You have no idea what you just started, 😂😂 My kids (adults now) and I watched that movie over and over to the point of tears! Now I gotta call them and get the joke started again! We used to tease my oldest daughter that she was going to have to marry the judge (Dan A.) with the dick nose! LOL! How cool. Thanks for that. I haven’t seen the other two though.. gonna go look them upright now!

[@genebryant3333]

When Harry gets eaten by paperwork lives on in my nightmares to this day...;

[@pygmalionsrobot1896]

I saw this movies in the 80's and it is genius. Always wondered why it doesn't get more attention. Pure genius.

[@johnmurdoch8534]

The one point i think is a little off here is that sam is NOT awakened by any deeper desire for revolution. He is a confused everyman who is following some half inspired quest for a girl ..he never thinks beyond this. So, without any truly deeper understanding of himself or his society, he is easily crushed by it.

[@ivanconnolly7332]

A man who served 18 years in a British prison wrongly convicted for rape was billed for his prison time , he now lives in a car park in France and has received no compensation, it emerged that the police knew of his innocence.

[@cotenaijo3112]

Britian was the first real empire so it makes sense they got a jump start on the corrupt government trend

[@MrGrae333]

Ah yes, falsely imprison someone against their will and then later charge them for being falsely imprisoned against their will. Peak justice. Government is slavery.

[@kevinavilaescobar8050]

living in the uk and having quit a job my job as a heating engineer for social housing. I send my ex managers clips from brazil as explanation for why i left.

[@rogersmith9579]

Yep, me too. (It's frightening)

[@Tulemasin]

I had a friend working at tax and customs board. He was very good on giving advice about law and systems when I was forming my own company, to make sure I did everything right and not get into any trouble because of my own stupidity. Then a local film theatre with a bit more historic edge to it was celebrating it's birthday and held a screening of Brazil. I ended up going to see the film with my beaurocrat of a friend. I had seen the film but the opportunity to see it in cinema is pretty special but he was late for the screening, he ran into the theatre so late that there was noone selling tickets anymore so after the screening he was walking around the theatre to find someone to accept his money for the film he just watched and said that he was late because of the same world he came to see in a theatre after work. We didn't talk much after this and the next thing I hear of him is that he was living in a car in Australia's outback working as a tractor driver in a farm. We saw the film in Estonia...

[@darkcoeficient]

Wow... The movie was life-changing for him.

[@Tulemasin]

@@darkcoeficient I wouldn't say the movie alone was to blame. He was known for having worked on many different jobs and also livig abroad for extended periods was his thing. I just think the timing was funny and I like to think that seeing this film made him make this decision sooner than later.

[@JohnRay1969]

Wow, your story would make a great film also.

[@jonnytheshark]

Lovely analysis! And the short film at the end was great!

[@stevemartin4249]

I am retired prof. in Japan (English As a 2nd Language, concentration in Comparative Culture) and now with a side-hustle of teaching advanced English learners - advanced enough to be capable of talking about subjects beyond the average education of native speakers of English. I mention the above as a justification for praising both the movie (had a big impact on me when it came out) and this excellent analysis. Both the movie and the analysis identify and connect a lot of dots, and at the highest standards to which a liberal arts education should aspire. Such a great analysis would not be possible without a lot of what many mistakenly perceive as irrelevant reading and courageous soul-searching. I will be proposing to the students to use both this movie and this analysis as material for small group discussions ... particularly in how this dove-tails with contemporary Japanese culture and the personal experiences and insights of myself and those students. Again, much thanks for this thought-provoking break-down.

[@ConsciousExpression]

Really terrific and enlightening analysis! I've seen several reviews of the film and yet yours was unique and insightful. That's quite a feat. Congrats.

[@walteracevedo5105]

Only learned about this film because of a quote from the video game character, Gex ("Oh, great. The dream sequence from 'Brazil' again."). Then a KZbinr made a vid discussing the character's quotes and showing the dream clip. And now, this vid gets added in my feed.

[@BiodegradableYTP]

I'm really glad Gilliam got that rare win against the Hollywood machine and that the Lover Conquers All cut never made it to cinemas. A close call indeed for what is, in my mind, one of the best damn movies ever made.

[@PeachysMom]

I remember watching this movie when it came out. I was a college kid and the ending blew my mind because I was so used to happy Hollywood endings for action/sci fi movies. It made me think. I loved it, I fell in love with movies because of Brazil.

[@kurtilingus]

Yes indeed, It's my favorite film of all time. I'm thankful for it having been made **at all** just like you mentioned, but also thankful for having the presence of mind after the first time I watched it at age 10 to forgo forming any critical strong opinions because I KNEW I needed to revisit it several years down the line as an adult to "get it". I really never even thought about it again until I was working for an excellent "had everything" movie store in my early 20's when the Criterion edition hit the shelves & it was like holding the fucking Dead Sea Scrolls w/ that box set in my hands bc it was "ohhhh yeah, this movie! THIS MOVIE!!!!! YES! NOW!!!!". It was one of those moments of being so incredibly excited & enthusiastic about something that is absolutely utterly impossible to convey to another human bc "eye of the beholder" & all just like everything else in life, haha. That time around I might as well have been a stand-in for the original movie poster bc it blew my fucking mind. There's never been another movie for me that has made absolute bleak despair feel so satisfying & fun.

[@danwroy]

Yeah but did he have to embarrass Sid Sheinberg, he already has reputation problems

[@greenaum]

I never thought of "SAM U R I" but it works like "ERE I AM J H" so you've got a point! Did Terry ever mention that?

[@teklife]

my favorite movie of all time, and one i have watched so many times, and it is sooo hilarious, and deep at the same time. it's brilliant!

[@Fenrisson]

I've been curious about that movie for the longest time! Much respect, and Please Come to Brazil. Actually, don't.

[@pontram]

Luckily, in Austria and Germany we got the right cut of this movie, and I watched it three times then, since I found myself in so many ways resonating with this movie. I still do. This movie is still in the top five of my all-time favorites. It hasn't aged well, I must say, it hasn't aged at all. Sadly, it gets more actual every year. Technically, I think that the special effects in the dream sequences, especially the angel scenes, surpassed any other productions at the time. There is also a scene not mentioned here, when Sam drives on the highway, which has walls of huge ads all along the sides, the camera moves back, and we see that everything's a miniature, and a big head of a drunken man appears. I couldn't quite figure out what that had to mean. I got a soundtrack CD many years later, only to my disappointment that the beloved dream scene was overdubbed by Kate Bush. I never understood this. This was created at the dawn of the digital office, and it shows the failure of every promise that was made how the digitalization will make our world better; and it also shows how incompetent so many people are handling this technology - I still meet Sam's former superior, and also his colleague from the parted office chamber, sometimes.

[@kremesauce]

The first few times I saw this movie was the love conquers all cut and was floored when I saw Terrys true vision

[@mynameisforrest]

When I see the expressions ”corporate” or ”bureaucracy” I come to think of the corridors of Brazil

[@aodhganmerrimac]

Brazil is such a great movie! One of my favorites. Years ago I bought a used rental VHS tape of it only to find it was a miserable unwatchable mish-mash-I'm thinking now it was the "Love Conquers All" cut.

[@pn4960]

I watched this movie many years ago and I still think about it regularly

[@themanwiththegoldengooch9811]

This is my dads favourite film and I watched it with him when I was a kid around 12-13 years old. the visuals of the film always stuck with me as a kid. definitely due for me to rewatch it

[@JamieSutherland-jj8kp]

My favourite film during my teen years and the one that's stuck with me the most. It shaped my taste in fiction and creativity. Gilliam may be an old wind-bag now but his classics are as watchable and relevant as ever.

[@jpotter2086]

I first saw this masterpiece in an art appreciation course. The course was offered as a block course, so there were quite a lot of students in the hall and a lot of them from outside the art school. Business students, engineering students, etc. They were absolutely mystified by a course spending a week on this :D

[@flipadoo]

This was great, thanks! I caught the cut version years ago, loved it, but thought it was the drugs that kept me from understanding it. Now I'll have to find a director's cut.. for all three.

[@KristofskiKabuki]

The black beach Gilliam was referring to is Port Talbot in Wales, if you Google it you'll see where some of the set design ideas came from

[@NightRunner417]

The true tragedy for me is that I saw this movie when I was just a teenager. My take away from it was "Wow, that was really bizarre. Cool, but bizarre." I suppose I should be thankful that I managed to think it was cool, and sure my older brother helped me to understand it a little, but I didn't "get" it like I would have if I'd just seen it today after so much life has rolled over me. It hits a LOT differently with me now.

[@brookeberesford]

What a gem. Great breakdown.

[@drygordspellweaver8761]

That was one hell of a review. SAM U R I. Wow

[@unbearifiedbear1885]

_"Ere I am, JH"_

[@Funkylogic]

Loved this film. Superb soundtrack, I love you Kate Bush. I have spent my life as Harry trying to fix it, in every way , thanks to all your efforts.

[@spiritualanarchist8162]

Brazil was a movie about the real dystopia that was coming. Modern Hollywood dystopia is a background for looking at heroes shooting zombies.

[@matthiasmartin1975]

One of the best films I've ever watched, but too soul crushing to ever watch again.

[@xBINARYGODx]

It's funny to me that often this film and (both film and novel) A Clockwork Orange are taken to be events that take place in the future when either the writers/directors didn't intend that or were not really caring of the when (thinking it could be now, or perhaps just a few years from now, give some minor changes to history or current events).

[@ThePwallat]

The bug falling into the teletype actually happened during the red scare. A woman was falsely accused because of a typo

[@KidFresh71]

That poster on the outside of the Shangri-La Towers is amazing: "Mellowfields: Top Security Holiday Camps. Luxury without Fear. Fun without Suspicion. Relax in a Panic-Free Atmosphere." Very Orwellian. Reminds me of the all-inclusive resorts in foreign country, with barbed wire and armed guards surrounding the property, to keep out the local inhabitants / "undesirables." Luxury without fear.

[@ThisGuyAd.]

It's technically a coal cooling tower 😂 that said this video was brilliant! I've loved this movie since I saw it at about 8 years old. My parents watched Brazil in the cinema, then had to go and watch it again on the second showing of that day. 💯 Great analysis, oh and Merry Christmas to you too 😂

[@anonygrazer3234]

The "Love Conquers All" version sounds like it was edited with _formulaic chaos_ by Information Retrieval.

[@mr_mack_indenver7807]

I suspect this, in part, may be why there is so much interest in VR and Games, and the desire to improve that technology.

[@alankoz5067]

I can't fathom Gilliam's brilliance, but I wonder if he were not titling this movie after Hy-Brazil. We see Hy-Brazil in another of his movies, which sinks in that one. It's very strange how the last recorded sighting of Hy-Brasil was in 1872 by Irish antiquarian and folklorist TJ Westropp, who was then aged 12. He'd seen the island twice before, or so he claimed. 1871 marks the year of enslavement of the American people with the Act of 1871. Please note the word "act." An "act" of Congress is just that; an ACT. It's all part of the corporate fiction!

[@greedtheron8362]

I think what I love most about this movie is the aesthetic of thousands of pipes and ducts running everywhere. It's almost like everywhere is the most complex factory possible, and I want more media like it.

[@OrionCanning]

Brazil might be my favorite movie, if I believed in strict hierarchies like that.

[@MartinParsons-tr6wi]

" You've got to say the number."

[@josephcooper1928]

The reason why the movie is called Brazil is based on the song that is played over and over in the movie. The song, written in 1939, is essentially a love song about the country itself. What's ironic is that at the time the country was a fascist dictatorship. So the irony of the song is that it completely ignores the reality of the situation the composer is in, and paints an idealistic picture that obscures reality. The point of the movie is that is how the majority of society lives today, completely ignoring the reality that they live in, and instead create a fantasy world that they inhabit. Something that is encouraged by society itself through consumerism and disinformation. What the movie also points out is that all falls apart when one tries to pursue authentic emotions in an inauthentic world.

[@jasonmoran5152]

You were off on one point. Paperwork didn't kill Tuttle. He lost Tuttle in the paperwork :)

[@TupDigital]

I'll never forget my best buddy and I watching this Brazil preview on a blockbuster VHS and being riveted by it, still making jokes about it to this day...... Even though I still haven't watched Brazil yet, it's uncanny how much this rings of as a prequel to 12 monkeys by Gilliam. Truly bizarre to see this style in more than one movie! I Must watch this later.

[@greenaum]

In the bombed restaurant, Mrs Terrain asks Sam to do something, but only in his job capacity, not right there and then. Since he works for the government, even if it's not his department. And his lunch hour.

[@TheMaddWatcher]

My all time favorite movie, I have seen this movie more times than I can count and yet this is still an extremely enjoyable video. Very relevant and informative while being entertaining. Thanks so much!

[@danielromero240]

Unironically Brazil is such burocratic nightmare, our government is a mess since forever.

[@idahomike4254]

Yeah, this movie is such a mindf$^k that it's kinda hard to sit through. I watched it many years ago and the DVD just sits there in my collection. Gotta be in the right frame of mind for this one. Classic masterpiece, no doubt. Cheers!

[@franzsperginand113]

I laughed for about 20 minutes straight when I realized I was looking at a vigilante AC repair man. It's so fucked up and so ridiculous.

[@stvbrsn]

When Sam tapped the top of the clock with the phone receiver and the hands suddenly sped around to the correct time… I knew I was going to love this movie.

[@timothykuring3016]

I liked that movie when it came out, and I often made references to it when I said Monty python jokes have become reality. Same in the scene in "Life of Brian" when a man wants to make his right to become a woman part of a revolutionary political platform.

[@kurtilingus]

Haha, excellent point. One of the absurd parts about what you mentioned which parallels well with Life of Brian's absurdist reasoning is the way my view of "Do all of the bizarre shit you'd like to yourself with or without whichever consenting adult to your heart's content for all I care, cuz I simply don't." is beyond inadequate unless I'm proactively going out and expending time & effort involving myself in said revolutionary political platform. Like practically a bigot in many people's eyes even though I'm like platinum-level egalitarian here because as I see it, every country, race, ethnicitty, gender, culture, religion & basically every way to conceive humans in some group sucks in some way or another. Also, everyone sucks as an individual person in some significant way too. Also we're all going to die. Soon too, apocalypse or not. We're all the same. See? My jaded nihilism is progressive af, yet rarely accepted as such. *Shrug* Fuck em

[@kimjongun2266]

The flying dream sequences are more relatable now than ever as people live in a social media age where individuals fantasize (and portray) their lives as greater than reality. Edit: also what a great thumbnail kino, your really helping me with my schizo sleep paralysis nightmares

[@johnhickman8391]

Him going mad, an living his happiest life, is a def win for the protagonist, an id say a happier ending than the alternative.

[@ryurc3033]

I was probably 12-13 when I first saw this movie. Didn't remember a lot besides the face stretching scene....and the somewhat erratic nature of the thing. Later I watched fear and loathing, and learned that Terry Gilliam had been involved. Same as one of the first movies I could remember time bandits...... But Brazil ages like wine. in different stages of life it gets better and better.

[@ryurc3033]

Completely underrated video. A shame millions didn't pay attention, we could actually change something instead of getting ground up in the machine.

[@troywalkertheprogressivean8433]

"Nice people make the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on "happier" things than politics. They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren't nice people? RESISTERS." - Naomi Shulman

[@jbftcmof]

Ugh, every time you put out a video I am reminded about things I've been meaning to watch. And then I have to watch them before I watch your video.

[@ShubbaLoa]

My dad's favourite film! So glad I watched this growing up, even if its a downer when you think about it. The comedy is on point though.

[@peztopher7297]

Yeah, I loved this film when I saw it new. I still love it, but in a completely different way since I now realize this can be a reality.

[@DrMcGriddle]

i LOVE THIS MOVIE. However I feel insane when I try to explain it to people.

[@MartinParsons-tr6wi]

"What's it about ?" "Ducting."

[@claudiogabrielhentz3194]

Every time I watched it, after two days or more I felt the need to cry a bit because of it's ending. Despite of this, I love this movie and I can't praise it enough for it's meaning and how it impacted me Sorry for my English, I'm a non native speaker. Greetings from Argentina!

[@kroon275]

Greetings from Ireland ✊

[@blakechildress944]

Dang, Universal’s “Love Conquers All” cut sounds terrible and jarring. Glad I bought the Criterion collection to watch Brazil.

[@cy6412]

One of your best reviews yet, great job! I've tried to watch Brazil a couple times but just couldn't get into it or pay attention enough to understand what was going on. But I think after watching Kino's explanation I'll have to give it another try.

[@Bonnatella]

Watching Brazil when I was a child intrigued me. Watching it as an adult, im still intrigued.

[@hagerty1952]

27:58 OMG! That exact thing happened to me once. After the small company I worked for was bought out by a big conglomerate, I went from being the golden boy of test engineering to persona non grata when I publicly defended my former manager who had been treated very unfairly (she later cleared herself before quitting). In order to get rid of me without risking a wrongful termination suit, I was given a long list of "infractions" I'd committed over the years I'd been there. Things like giving unauthorized tours of the lab to my in-laws and other "lapses of judgement." I countered that those had happened years ago and no one had said anything at the time about it being against the rules, so why is it wrong now? I suspect that most companies record these things all the time for exactly this purpose. They give you plenty of rope with which they can hang you later, if the need arises.

[@kathyflorcruz552]

Alas, the government data mines our lives for the same reason. At any time they can turn anyone into a convict. It's right on display in the U.S. now. And the brainwashed cannot even see it, they applaud it.

[@andimitris24]

From time to time, i still catch myself whistling the tune.

[@VicFromFallout]

I saw this movie for the first time in the mid 90's, I was a kid and I didn't understand it. You did an amazing job with this review and I thank you. Now I have to look at Brazil again

[@M05tly]

I cannot imagine how frustrating, even soul destroying, it must be for a creative minded person like Gillingham, who obviously cares deeply for the story he is trying to tell, have to watch his art be butchered by hollywood executives. I wonder, has there ever been a movie that goes into detail about this sort of battle? I imagine it is one fought often and we have missed out on some true masterpieces thanks to focus groups and meddling money men. Also, you have gained a new sub. Brazil has been one of my favourites since first seeing it. Living in the UK and having been subjected to the bureaucratic obstacle course when engaging with "the system", there is definitely humour to be found in the ridiculousness of its rules and operations.

[@philyeary8809]

Read about John Carpenter vs Universal.

[@M05tly]

@@philyeary8809 John Carpenter is a legend. Given the nature of his creativity I can only imagine the sort of trouble he had trying to bring it to the big screen. AI actually makes me more hopeful for future creative works than less. Those with vision now have more tools at their disposal for vastly less money than previously would have been needed. Might be a good thing for movies when directors etc can do more for less. It's no wonder that when such huge amounts of money are being invested that those same investors try to appeal to as many as possible, there by diluting the original creative vision.

[@MartinParsons-tr6wi]

Try and find "Strike", in "The Comic Strip" series

[@M05tly]

@@MartinParsons-tr6wi thanks, I'll check it out.

[@MartinParsons-tr6wi]

@@M05tly "The Comic Strip presents." Hope you find it, it seems to be available. Some of the others are good too (The Yob)

[@HipnoDark]

lemme tell ya how i came to know about this film... Me and some old friends on ours 17's totally drunk, around 3 am starting to watch this very weird movie on regular tv and kept watching until the name of it pops in the screen: "Brazil: the movie". That was like 1 hour in the movie already. Then we was watching it, one of the guys and I, standing up for like 2 hours, hypnotized, the other guys already passed. Soon one of us said "this... is not about Brazil..." and watched until the end... i had to watch it again a couple of times later. On that first time, watching that weird movie on a CARNAVAL HOLYDAY IN MY HOMECOUNTRY BRAZIL TOTALLY WASTED AT 17 YEARS OLD was way more brazilian than the movie. Was love at theh first time to me...

[@Redlox70]

Superb analysis, thank you.

[@spencersherwin5747]

There's also two versions of Gilliam's cut, the Criterion cut is the only one where you can see the scene where Sam is processed for his crimes

[@Bootlegger4]

I love the colour video on a black & white TV

[@MiaogisTeas]

03:06 He's definitely being facetious. That English sense of humor will get you if you're not used to it. =D

[@babobereta]

there are no terrorists, at least we as an audience aren`t shown any actual terrorists, just people state wants to get rid of for different reasons so they declare them terrorists. Explosions that happen during the film (in the restaurant or in that store) could very well be the result of a failure of broken down piece of equipment or some machine that wasn`t repaired on time. We see that when heating breaks down in Sam`s apartment it takes endless amount of time and paperwork to actually fix it and in the end it doesn`t get fixed. So these explosions could be the result of a failing equipment that didn`t get fixed on time because of ridiculous bureaucracy, but government doesn`t want to admit it so they invent some rebel terrorist group that is not real to blame for these explosions and anybody who state wants to get rid of is declared a terrorist. Harry Tuttle is just a repairman that went rogue and is working outside the system, state declares him a terrorist to get rid of him, but when they are printing papers for his arrest a literal bug in the computer causes his last name to change from Tuttle to Buttle so they arrest and subsequently kill the wrong person. Jill was Buttle`s neighbour who feeling sorry for his wife decides to file a formal complaint in some government office, but somebody realizing that they made a mistake ("we took the wrong man as the right man") declares her a terrorist as well because obviously they can`t allow anybody snooping around finding out that they killed innocent person because of some silly mistake. And finally Sam is also declared a terrorist for helping Jill out, and all of this because a bug flew into a printer

[@christophermiller3031]

Great video ❤ i subbed - this is the first time i was recommended so hey! 👋 i have done research by way of fracturing many bones... tv is a distraction ofcourse, but only by playing an intense video game i was into... video games were the only way i could forget about the immense pain that came with every breath 😅 so there ARE use cases... but yeah

[@stvbrsn]

Wow. I’m pausing a couple minutes in, just to comment thusly: I’ve never seen this channel before and I don’t know who you are but you bear a scary resemblance to my (late) brother and now I’m simply convinced you are a long lost cousin of mine. Ok, now back to the video. Brazil is my all time favorite movie.

[@petergarayt9634]

Tuttle didn't die in the paper tornado. It's to show he only existed in Sam's mind.

[@MartinParsons-tr6wi]

Or, he only starts tripping in the torturer's chair. (that's how I read it)

[@FrankieJizking-js3yv]

33:29- the report of the week kid is one of the interrogators at 26:20. Spooky.

[@ericdoe2318]

8:00 I would say he looks not like Icarus, but Daedalus because his wings ain’t melting….😊

[@SliceofLife7777]

I really liked this terrifying story of escapist fantasy. It's a sad story about the rejection of reality. And a beautiful movie about the rejection of reality. We're a race of liars.

[@intrepidabsurdist]

I love this movie - though I do credit it with being the reason we got the Bob Hoskins Mario.

[@intrepidabsurdist]

Okay, I should watch a video before commenting so I don’t just repeat what is said already.

[@phillylifer]

We have been getting closer and closer to this as iur reality. One of the greatest film concepts.

[@subtledemisefox]

Want to read something scary? A lot of the things that happened in this movie are based on things that had already happened before the movie was filmed.

[@SeanMcGehee]

Definitely in my top five films, great video as always.

[@abcde_fz]

I'M VERY HAPPY THAT NEITHER MY MOUTH OR MY TONGUE GIVE A SHIT WHAT MY HAMBURGER LOOKS LIKE. _JUST_ _EAT_ _IT!_

[@SEAL341]

Brilliant stuff! And I've definitely seen Time Bandits and Brazil waay more than fifteen times.

[@VincentNajger1]

I first saw this movie on VHS when I was around 17 in the early 90s. It had a profound effect upon me and definitely guided a lot of the directions that my life has taken.