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Brazil [1985]

Brazil [1985]
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm
Directed By: Terry Gilliam
Average Customer Rating: Average rating of 4.0/5Average rating of 4.0/5Average rating of 4.0/5Average rating of 4.0/5Average rating of 4.0/5

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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5039036011891
Format: Anamorphic
Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: 2003-05-19
Running Time: 137
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1985-12-18

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Editorial Reviews: If Franz Kafka had been an animator and film director--oh, and a member of Monty Python's Flying Circus--this is the sort of outrageously dystopian satire one could easily imagine him making. However, Brazil was made by Terry Gilliam, who is all of the above except, of course, Franz Kafka. Be that as it may, Gilliam sure captures the paranoid-subversive spirit of Kafka's The Trial (along with his own Python animation) in this bureaucratic nightmare-comedy about a meek governmental clerk named Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) whose life is destroyed by a simple bug. Not a software bug, a real bug (no doubt related to Kafka's famous Metamorphosis insect) that gets smooshed in a printer and causes a typographical error unjustly identifying an innocent citizen, one Mr. Buttle, as suspected terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro). When Sam becomes enmeshed in unravelling this bureaucratic glitch, he himself winds up labelled as a miscreant.

The movie presents such an unrelentingly imaginative and savage vision of 20th-century bureaucracy that it almost became a victim of small-minded studio management itself--until Gilliam surreptitiously screened his cut for the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, who named it the best movie of 1985 and virtually embarrassed Universal into releasing it. --Jim Emerson


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Summary: Some will like this, I didn't
Comment: Fans of Gilliam will find much to keep them happy here. There's nightmarish, dystopian imagery in spades, dream sequences are lavish and the finale is really quite masterful.

The problem however, lies in the rest of the film. The humour kept me interested for about the first 30-45 minutes, after which it starts to wear a little thin. The same can be said about the plot - it starts out snappily enough but becomes seemingly endless in the latter half of the film. Logical ending points give rise to yet further story development and at over 2 hours in length, it became quite a slog to get through. Lastly, the characterisation just didn't work for me. Not sure if it was the acting, the script, or both but I didn't care too much for any of the characters, something that made it even harder to remain engaged with the film.

In conclusion, I think this film could have done with a good deal of editing - the final scenes are memorable, but getting there is fairly forgettable. 2.5/5

Customer Rating: Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5
Summary: In short.
Comment: Genius.

Don't know what films you one-starers saw or what world you live in.

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Summary: A True Classic
Comment: More than 20 years after I first saw this film I still like it, which is not the same as saying that I entirely enjoy watching it. There are particular scenes I can always vividly recall, Robert DeNiro's subversive plumber character swooping off into the night, and later on vanishing in a swirl of wind-blown newspaper. These things are always a matter of taste, and to my taste this is a 5-star film.

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Summary: don't waste 137mins of your life on this!
Comment: I tried to watch the movie until the end, really I did. But when my other half thought revising was more interesting than eating candy & watching this film, what more can I say, it was rubbish!

It just seems to spin off into the writers mind far too much with no real direction at times, so much so you can FF through whole scenes & not actually loose any of the story line.

At the end rather than thinking at least I can say "I've watched it", I was left feeling, "why did I bother" and "I'll never admit to watching it".

Customer Rating: Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5
Summary: Hilarious and horrifying
Comment: Put simply this brilliant flim is a Monty Python take on 1984. In fact this is an example of how inventive flims can be outside the restraints of genre. The entertaning and twisty plot is set in a world as well realised as any sci-fi. The bleak story of how Jonathan Pryce's everyman character is destroyed by his romantic fantasies is balanced nicely by the dry, black humour you would expect of a former Python.



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