BRAZIL written and directed by Terry Gilliam

genre fantsy/sci fi

. The film is about how people are just slaves to the Bureaucracy and nobody can do anything. It’s all done for them as represented by the toy that drops down and all the machinery through the tubes. In the beginning Sam didn’t want change, didn’t have a mind of his own and could be trained to do things just like a dog. Even his boss used him as his slave even going so far as to make Sam sighing his boss' name for him. But after he wanted change, in fact he needed it and he couldn’t be told what to do. Once the propaganda left his mind he saw how terrible the world actually is. His hallucinations were about authority and how they can turn people into their slaves. How the evil looking things in masks where actually souls taken by industries and companies

. In his dream he had wings and could fly representing freedom as the dreams lengthened they were actually telling the story in a different format. The hero Sam was looking for a girl trapped and held captive by evil forces. in the real world she was stuck as a truck driver by social services. Sam’s small office comparing to his dream showed how little freedom and happiness everyone had and he even had to share a desk with another person who was snidey and smug. It was a dog eat dog world the food had become this ice cream like substance just tasting like it (kind of reminds me of Soylent Green?).

 Everyone treated each other terribly. People didn’t care about each other or their children who ran through the streets hurting people and burning anything they can find. Social services were depicted as evil corporate facility that did nothing. But when they did they were smug indecent horrible people. The person fighting social services, Harry Tuttle, was an engineer who fixes Sam Lawry’s air conditioning is also a metaphor and he says the answer about 3 times at separate points. Sam sees these creatures with baby masks on that are supposed to represent souls lost to corporate slaves but near the end Sam sees his best friend wearing a mask exactly like that one the creatures wore meaning that jack had became a slave to the industry and being made to torture his best friend. It’s a sorrowing tale of confusion and reality based in a dystopian future.