The film centres on Sam Lowry, a low-ranking bureaucrat trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living in a small flat, set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines and where people found guilty of crimes are liable for the costs of their interrogation by torture. Brazil’s satire of technocracy, bureaucracy, hyper-surveillance, corporate statism, and state capitalism is reminiscent of George Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four,[11][12][13] and it has been called “Kafkaesque”[14] as well as absurdist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)
movie link: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9tvfji
Oh boy. My favorite. Its a movie more about ideas, wishes, dreams, than action, but the actual plot holds together really well too.
Top notch find, @[email protected]. Thanks.
Great art helps you make sense of the world around you. You will watch this and say: “hey, that’s just like… that’s talking about… isn’t that a reference to…” Yes. Yes it is, even though it was made over 40 years ago. Because the absurd contradictions are eternal.
Seems to lean towards realist these days.