Brazil

what an incredible movie. Insane set design, beautiful and captivating score, and a nostalgic, absurd, and insanely surreal setting and atmosphere. First movie to make me feel a little existential in a while, which is a feeling i’ve been chasing since watching melancholia. what a freaking awesome and dark world this movie has, with ridiculously well-done visuals to present it. this movie is such an awesome vibe, it feels so strangely familiar like a dream i had when i was a baby or something, while also feeling like nothing i’ve ever seen before. and it has some really funny jokes thrown in there. i really did love it.  the only thing that keeps this from getting a higher score was the romance. I like it after it develops a little. but with how it starts, it didn’t really deserve to get to that point. Sam was a complete and total freak to the love interest when they first meet up until the bombing, and it makes zero sense that she would come back to his place afterwards. maybe it was meant to show that the world is so twisted that his actions felt genuine in the midst of lies and that’s why she fell for him, in which case I’d probably have to rewatch with that perspective. there’s also the theory that Jill was not real but rather an internalization of Sam’s selfless side to contrast his selfish side, but I’d have to see more reasoning to back up that theory because both characters have moments where they act independently. in the meantime, I was really off put by those initial interactions. perhaps i’ll change my mind in the future.  9/10