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"Monty Python meets ninteen eighty four"

When I watched this film for the first time I was amazed by the production values. A quirky, funny and relevent take on our government having too much control over us as...
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"Monty Python meets ninteen eighty four"

When I watched this film for the first time I was amazed by the production values. A quirky, funny and relevent take on our government having too much control over us as individuals.

Terry Gilliam is a visual genius and a master of direction; and Brazil is proof of this.

Each scene plays out perefectly, the script is funny as it is witty and the performaces are excellent. The film constantly pulls you back to watch it again, so you may be emersed in its world once more and discover a new tidbit or hidden message which you havn't noticed upon previous viewings.

In short, an excellent film which deserves multiple viewings to apprecite it fully.

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Posted feb 11, 2008 12:44 am pt

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This movie is very well-done, and I'm surprised how long it took me to find out about it. The writing is original and funny, and the visuals and production design are excellent. It's one of the best examples of 1980s science fiction.

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Posted aug 20, 2007 12:23 pm pt

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Beautifully shot movie, Terry Gilliam does an amazing job of directing this. Jonathan Pryce's scenes with Ian Hom are tremendous and they are something that should be applauded. The only reason why I didn't give this a 10/10 is because the ending...
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Beautifully shot movie, Terry Gilliam does an amazing job of directing this. Jonathan Pryce's scenes with Ian Hom are tremendous and they are something that should be applauded. The only reason why I didn't give this a 10/10 is because the ending is weak for a movie that was strong throughout. 9/10.

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Posted mar 17, 2007 4:40 am pt

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Brazil is by far my favorite Gilliam film, mostly because of the dazzling visuals and the hilarity of Pryce's performance.

In the future, the government controls everything. Sam Lowry, a lowly government employee, falls for a woman...
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Brazil is by far my favorite Gilliam film, mostly because of the dazzling visuals and the hilarity of Pryce's performance.

In the future, the government controls everything. Sam Lowry, a lowly government employee, falls for a woman involved in a rebellion, thus putting his own life in danger.

The film has a really great dark comedy feel, and the story seems really fresh and interesting (thanks to the performances and the set). It's a film I recommend for anyone who wants something a bit "different."

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Posted feb 24, 2007 9:09 am pt

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Awesome one of the best movies of the 80's and one of De Niro's best films in quite a while, after Goodfellas, of course, but this movie is certainly one of the best on its genre. Quite original movie, and one of the best... I am speechless, this...
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Awesome one of the best movies of the 80's and one of De Niro's best films in quite a while, after Goodfellas, of course, but this movie is certainly one of the best on its genre. Quite original movie, and one of the best... I am speechless, this movie is awesome. One of the greatest...

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Posted feb 10, 2007 1:06 am pt

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The Good

+ robert deniro's character
+ explosions
+ some really funny parts
+ twist at the end
+ baby? mask
+ unique future setting

The Bad

- no characters are really...
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The Good

+ robert deniro's character
+ explosions
+ some really funny parts
+ twist at the end
+ baby? mask
+ unique future setting

The Bad

- no characters are really established (aside from deniro)
- slow unfunny ending
- the dreams

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Posted jan 27, 2007 6:15 am pt

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Simply the best film of the 80's...beyond the imagery and political underpinnings, Brazil is a unique expression of the tragic fate of humanity, we hate ourselves and eventually we will destroy ourselves.

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Posted dec 12, 2006 2:23 am pt

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One of the greatest films ever made, this is a dazzling tour de force of visual imagery, and paranoid Kafka-esque fantasy. A sweeping swashbuckling romance played out against a backdrop of totalitarian oppression, German impressionist...
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One of the greatest films ever made, this is a dazzling tour de force of visual imagery, and paranoid Kafka-esque fantasy. A sweeping swashbuckling romance played out against a backdrop of totalitarian oppression, German impressionist architecture, and ducts. I've seen this film about 50 times and it still enthralls me. The "making of" story is almost as interesting as the film itself, and the bureaucratic nonsense that director Terry Gilliam became mired in mirrors the film's subject matter in an uncanny way! If you have eyeballs, you owe it to them to see this movie at least 3 times.

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• [+] The New York Times
  
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  Brazil may not be the best film of the year, but it's a remarkable accomplishment for Mr. Gilliam, whose satirical and cautionary impulses work beautifully together. His film's ambitious visual style bears this out, combining grim, overpowering architecture with clever throwaway touches.

  by Janet Maslin | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  100
  This modern cult classic is a triumphantly dark comedy directed by one of the film world's truly original visionaries, Terry Gilliam. "Imagination" is this futuristic film's middle name.

  by Marjorie Baumgarten | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  100
  A ferociously creative 1985 black comedy filled with wild tonal contrasts, swarming details, and unfettered visual invention--every shot carries a charge of surprise and delight.

  by Dave Kehr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  100
  One of those rare gems that prove equally stunning on both aesthetic and cerebral levels.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film.com
  
  100
  For all its occasional long-windedness and visual dazzle, Brazil may be the "Strangelove" of the 1980s.

  by John Hartl | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Examiner
  
  100
  It's a glimmering hunk of fractured brilliance riddled with Orwellian paranoia encased in a production design seemingly pieced together from the shared dreams of Franz Kakfa and Salvador Dali, and shot from cruelly low angles.

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
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  There is not a more daft, more original or haunting vision to be seen on American movie screens this year... A terrific movie has escaped the asylum without a lobotomy. The good guys, the few directors itching to make films away from the assembly line, won one for a change. [30 Dec 1985, p.84]

  by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
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  It remains a stunning achievement, if nearly as exhausting and frustrating as the Tex Avery bureaucracy it roasts, but Gilliam's stylistic dysfunctionalities, art-directed out of junkyards, are what still percolate in the forebrain.

  by Michael Atkinson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  90
  Chillingly hilarious.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  70
  Blindingly obtuse, excessively morose, the film is nevertheless dazzling in its inventive and massive sets and spectacular in its techniques...A powerful work that is both bleakly funny and breathtakingly assured.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
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  Perhaps it is not supposed to be clear; perhaps the movie's air of confusion is part of its paranoid vision. There are individual moments that create sharp images (shock troops drilling through a ceiling, De Niro wrestling with the almost obscene wiring and tubing inside a wall, the movie's obsession with bizarre duct work), but there seems to be no sure hand at the controls.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Republic
  
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  Brazil doesn't add up to much, not only because its cautionary tales are familiar, but because it has no real point of view, nothing urgent under its facile symbols. And the story winds on and on looking for a finish. Three or four times I reached for my coat prematurely. [17 Feb 1986, p.26]

  by Stanley Kauffmann | Read Full Review »