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Brazil (Brasil)
1985 -
UK -
131 min. -
Feature, Color
Director:
Terry Gilliam
Cast:
Jonathan Pryce,
Robert De Niro,
Michael Palin,
Kim Greist.
More Information:
All Movie Guide
Características del DVD
- Lang.: English
/ Subtitles in
Spanish
Alquílela
por (rent it for): $3.77
(dos días - two days)
Si vive en
Weston (if you live in Weston)
Sinopsis
(All Movie Guide)
This nightmarish futuristic satire effectively
blurs all lines between illusion and reality.
Jonathan Pryce
plays Sam Lowrey, a government statistician who chooses to blind himself to
the decaying, drone-like world around him. Whenever real life becomes too
oppressive, Sam fantasizes (to the tune of the 1940s big-band hit "Brazil")
about being an alternate-world superhero, forever rescuing beautiful Jill
Layton (Kim
Greist). The omnipresent computer that controls everything in the "real"
world malfunctions, causing the mistaken-identity assassination of an innocent
citizen. When Sam routinely investigates the error, he meets Jill, literally
the girl of his dreams. It turns out that she is an associate of a terrorist (Robert
De Niro) whom the computer had originally intended to target for
execution. The price Sam pays for tumbling to this fact is a close encounter
with the man in charge of torturing troublesome citizens (Michael
Palin). Director
Terry Gilliam
does too much very well in
Brazil (a
typically excessive moment is the hilarious plastic-surgery treatment given
Sam's mother, played by
Katherine
Helmond).
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