Terry William Brazil

Terry Gilliam’s vision of the future as an bureaucratic, industrial society presents itself as a Dystopia where bureaucrats, a militarized police force and a social elite are in charge of this fictitious society. In the middle of this, Sam Lowry is a man living a simple life in a low level job and small apartment. He becomes more involved in this society which leads to his demise at the end of the film. This film is a dystopia which attempts to call attention to bureaucracy and brutality. First, the film depicts a critical dystopia, critiquing the society it presents. Second, Brazil transforms the everyday by discussing familiar systems and topics but radically changing the way they function in this society. These two ideas contribute to Brazil as a

For example, air conditioning ducts cover the walls and require frequent maintenance from an understaffed company. Additionally, the scene where Sam Lowry wakes up and heads to work show his alarm clock, shower, and kitchen working together to get him everything he needs to head out, even though this machines seem over-complicated and relatively ineffective. Coffee machines and toasters are familiar to the audience, but adding this almost comical tangle of wires and ducts between them in order to automate the system is different and strange. Finally, once Sam arrives at work, he joins his workers in Records in watching television programs and movies on small, portable screens while working. These little screens take something familiar, television screens, and turn it into a strange contraption with some major differences. There does not seem to be channels, rather everyone is watching the same program. There might not be choice in what programing to watch. Watching television and getting ready for work are familiar, everyday events. However, Brazil takes these events and makes them other and different than our own