synopsis:

Just as George Orwell's 1984 is an alternate vision of the past, present and future, so 'Brazil' is a variation of Orwell's novel. The movie happens in a time and place that seem vaguely like our own, but with different graphics, hardware and politics. Society is controlled by a monolithic organization, and citizens lead a life of paranoia and control. Thought police are likely to come crashing through the ceiling and start bashing dissenters. Life is mean and grim and all the time terrorists try to blow up buildings.

The hero of 'Brazil' is Sam Lowry, a meek, desperate little man who works at a computer terminal all day. Occasionally he cheats; when the boss isn't looking, he and his fellow workers switch the screens of their computers to reruns of exciting old TV programs. Sam knows his life is drab and lockstep, but he sees no way out of it. His only escape is into his fantasies - into glorious dreams of flying high above all the petty cares of the world, urged on by the vision of a beautiful woman. His life and these dreams begin to merge together... his dreams become more realized as his life tears apart.

His everyday life offers no such possibilities. Even the basic mechanisms of life support seem to be failing, and one scene early in the movie has tuttle, an illegal free-lance repairman who defies the state by fixing things. tuttle makes his escape by sliding down long cables to freedom, like Spider-Man. For Sam, there seems to be no escape.then he sees his dream girl looking down at him through a hole in the ceiling during an arrest. later he spots a mistake in the arrest paperwork and follows up on the administrative error. It would seem that a Mr Buttle has been arrested accidentally instead of Harry Tuttle, the maverick heating engineer on the run from the state. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest, Sam finally meets his dream girl Jill Layton. eventually, the government imprisons him, finding him guilty of none other than "wasting the Ministry's time and paper".

about this movie:'Brazil', starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins and Michael Palin, is a film rich in depth - the plot does not focus on just one subject, but instead many different themes which weave together. The structure of 'Brazil' often uses peripheral devices: interviews heard in the background, lines of conversation running over action and posters seen on walls, to give the viewer cues as to what's going on in the film. It seems nearly impossible that a single viewing of 'Brazil' could possibly supply the viewer with all of the information needed to fully digest what's happening in the film.'Brazil' is a film which rolls up many of the problems of the century into one big plot: industrialization, terrorism, government control and bureaucracy (from both capitalist and socialized countries), technology gone wrong, inept repair people, plastic surgery, love, and even modern filmmaking. Gilliam has claimed that the film is about the fear of love: The consequences of the Sam Lowry character pursuing his dream girl are steep. In the world of 'Brazil', set "8:49 p.

m., somewhere in the 20th century", where fantasy is the only escape and the happy ending is that of a man going insane. the film shifts abruptly from comedy to despair, something Gilliam has described in interviews as cinematic rape.he also refers to this film as the second of a trilogy of movies, including Time Bandits (1981) and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). He notes that the three films share a related theme of the struggle for imagination and free thinking in a world constantly suppressing such ideas.