Some call Terry Gilliam a genius, I just dig him. Brazil has been on my "to watch" list for about a year, I tried watching it over several nights when I was out of town babysitting, but it just didn't take; this needed a bowl of popcorn and liquid in reserves so that I wouldn't walk away and lose track.
Set in an almost 40s throwback (clothes, billboard advertisements), it's a meaningless world filled with odd-ball machines that don't always seem to work and have complicated despite simple functions. It seems that people are more concerned with status and looks - Sam's content with the mediocrity of his job and life, yet, his mother tries to get him to move up the ladder through her high level friends while having several plastic surgery procedures (Katherine Helmond is hysterical!) Sam seems to hate the system he's a part of, where everyone just seems to be doing their job - his best friend tortures potential terrorists for the government but somehow manages to bring his daughter to work and act as if it's all just perfectly normal. His ultimate finger to the system comes when he meets the woman in his fantastic dreams - I think he sees their flight as his way beyond his mediocrity to happiness. The dream sequences are great - he's like the Archangel Michael saving his long tress-ed love from the tyranny of this giant Samurai made of mechanical pieces.
Really, an odd ball Gilliam film. Great, but watch it all at once! Great cast!
I assume it was a toss to the movie - the repair van in this week's episode of Chuck belonged to Tuttle!
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