The Philm Club cordially invites you to this week's film screening:
Brazil (1985)
dir. Terry Gilliam
140 minutes
Friday, March 2.
The screening will start at 17:30 -- not 18:00.
@ Zrinyi 14, Room 412
"In a dystopian society of the late 20th Century, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) is a mid-level bureaucrat from a rich and powerful family. He is obviously very intelligent, but without drive. He dreams constantly of being a flying avenger, and of a certain woman whom he can rescue from the clutches of an evil giant samurai. When he catches a glimpse of this woman in “reality”, he pursues her and begins to get in trouble with the Orwellian authorities. He takes a promotion he had earlier turned down, and uses his new level of information to find her and rescue her from the bureaucracy which has mistakenly targeted her and her neighbors." [1]
"Terry Gilliam’s Brazil imagines a world in which bureaucracy has won. It is a terrifying vision of the future. Brazil is a place where forms and procedures are more important than people, and where a paperwork error is the fault of the victim, not the bureaucrat who made it. Sentiments such as creativity, individuality, morality and the sanctity of life have no meaning in such a world that embraces its own stagnation and irrationality as points of pride and marks of its success." [2]
http://philmclub.blogspot.com
[1] http://onsecondlook.blogspot.com/2011/04/brazil-1985-dir-terry-gilliam.html
[2] http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/04/the-nightmare-of-the-absurd-terry-gilli...