Brazil - Criterion Collection

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Summary: One Wild Ride
Review: When a plastic-surgery crazed friend of the main-character's mother bumps into him, the woman, confined to a wheelchair and wrapped in bandages, utters, "My complication had a little complication," and all viewers in-tune with Terry Gilliam's screwball masterpiece fall out of their seats laughing. Gilliam's film is absolutely bizzare, managing to be both bleak and vibrant, hilarious and grim, clausterphobic and escapist. Don't miss it or its snappy musical score.

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Summary: the best
Review: This is the best film I've ever seen I could not imagine that such things exist, may be not everyone understand such movies but I like it//

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Summary: an incrablly imaginative film that is just too long.
Review: The first half of brazil is a brillant black comedy that could have been one of the best films ever made. It begins asa nightmenre fanstay of what our future could be. There is a lot of brillant black humor , intresting ideals and production desgins. The second half loses lots of steam and becomes really unintresting. It is also not as funny in the second half as it is in the first half. Which really holds thw films down. I wirte reviews for the long island youth film society.

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Summary: Not all people from Kzoo can't space words correctly
Review: Wow, what a view of the future. It's scary as hell and thought provoking. Terry Gilliam must be a wierd guy, but he has a vision. I think my favorite part is when Lowry's mother is watching a bomb go off and people die, and she just says, "Well, what can you do?" Wierd stuff, a great movie. See it

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Summary: An enjoyable version of "1984"
Review: A very different kind of film, where the tyrannical government of the future is a bureaucratic dictatorship (?) that doesn't work very well. While uneven at times, I thought this film was hilarious in its depiction of the future, with excellent casting, particularly Michael Palin as Sam Lowry's psychotic social-climbing friend in Information Retrieval. Some of the visual scenery was stunning, and I really liked the surreal atmosphere created by director Terry Gilliam. From reports I've read, he had major problems with the producers of this film, and this resulted in two different endings, one happy and one sad. The "sad" ending makes more sense, as you realize that some of the really bizzare scenes near the end were all in Sam Lowry's mind --- this was how the director wanted it. But the producer wanted a happy ending, and it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever in explaining the weirdness at the end (e.g. Robert DiNiro's character being covered and destroyed by pieces of paper). So if you see the "happy ending" and it seems incredibly stupid, you're watching the producer's cut. All that aside, it's still a great film!

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Summary: good
Review: good musicgood moviegood actinggood designavg.-good plotgoo

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Summary: A quirky movie
Review: TERRY GILLIAM has made a funny film about the future. "Brazil" was funny, quirky, and little odd. BUT there is no questioning, "Brazil" is fun!

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Summary: Crazy!
Review: This movie was awesome! It was really out there, but I loved it

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Summary: Brazil or Brasil
Review: This great movie is a realy future for the world, but anybody knows the truth of Brasil.

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Summary: A quirky masterpiece!
Review: The second episode in what can be considered his "dream trilogy" (starting with Time Bandits and concluding with Adventures of Baron Munchausen), Terry Gillian explores potentially redemptive and liberating but ultimately futile power of dreams, fantasy and imagination. Many Americans cannot grasp this movie. For them, it is but visual cacophony and thick British accents. But for the thoughtful and reflective, it is powerful and moving. The magical thing about Gillian's filmmaking is that he is willing to confuse his audience as part of his technique, leaving the viewer in suspense until the finale (which is one of the most powerful and tearing I have ever seen). A second viewing, as a result, is all the more rewarding than the first. Watch it by yourself and without distraction and let yourself become absorbed into it. It is a great movie.