Brazil

Brazil is one of the most underrated science fiction films, with a well-crafted critique of totalitarian control and a dystopian society.  The film has a perfect production design, the soundtrack is wonderful and the effects are quite ahead of their time. It is sad to know that the film was a box office failure, apparently the 80s were a bad year for these science fiction films that are a little more elevated such as Blade Runner, On The Silver Globe, Time Bandits, etc... P.S. Terry Gilliam He will probably become one of my favorite directors but I still lack his films so I will have to see them.  97/100** ** **EDIT 12/17/2024** This is my work from my Spanish Class "...They have a mouth but they don't speak, eyes, but they don't see, ears, but they don't hear, nose but they don't smell. They have hands, but they don't feel, feet, but they don't walk, not even a whisper comes out of their throat..." Fragment Psalm 115:6-7 Brazil, the cult classic by acclaimed director Terry Gilliam, tells a story about a totalitarian government on Christmas Eve. So the only Christmas thing about the movie is that it is located at Christmas. First of all, what is Totalitarianism? Totalitarianism is a political monism because it governs the entire power structure around political power, generally a single leader, absorbing the powers that are tuned to it and denying those that are independent or opposed. The film is about a man who begins to have dreams where he is free and flies, and in dreams he sees a very beautiful woman who would be like a princess in distress. Their dreams are very fanciful and it can be said that they are as a way to escape from the harsh reality that oppresses everyone. And from these dreams he realizes what the system in which he lives is like, so he will undertake a mission to end that system. The film shows us the idealization of a dehumanized world and order still stands after everything that has happened, attacks by people who want to overthrow. An example of this is that in one scene they are in a restaurant when suddenly bombs begin to explode and those who were not injured were left eating while the authorities took care of it. This would explain that they are in a world where violence is part of, people do not care because as long as they are not affected they will continue with their own, empathy no longer exists and human emotions are increasingly disappearing and leaving us with a world full of people forced to work, like androids with the sole purpose of working. Brazil is by far a great exhibition of the so-called "Modernity" project and its countless flaws, in this film you can observe a struggle between two positions "Modernity" and "Postmodernity". Well, although there is a criticism of the modern system and its failures, in the end it is this, the dominant system (Modernity). We never achieve a total detachment from modern thought. ** ** 97/100