Brazil

Brazil

It's only a state of mind.

Rating

3.0 (1)

Release Date

2/20/1985

Runtime

143 mins

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$15,000,000

Revenue

$9,900,000

Homepage

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A delirious, visually baroque plunge into a nightmarish bureaucratic hellscape where reality and fantasy collapse into each other, leaving you gleeful and deeply unsettled in equal measure. Gilliam's masterpiece treats absurdity as the only sane response to a world gone mad.

Mood

AbsurdParanoidBittersweet

Themes

IdentityCorruptionPowerTechnologyIsolation

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

FormalistPainterlyHigh-contrast

Structure

Nonlinear

Heads up

Graphic violenceChild endangerment

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