Brazil was a weird movie. Maybe the weirdest we've watched. Weirdest I've seen in a long, long time.
There was discussion in class about whether this movie really counts as "sci-fi." I'd say it does. It's a vision of the future. Just not our future. It's a deconstruction of the future people envisioned decades ago: the future where everything is sleek and shiny. With bright, loopy, neon lights. With towering art deco skyscrapers, silver and gold. But most especially, a future with order. A future that is run by a system, with organization and neatness and a place for everything.
In a sense it parallels 1984, but visually, at least, it deconstructs the art deco future. It combines that bright, shiny, retro aestheic with the film noir look of the same period. It shows the shadowy side of that bright future. That, at least, is something I'd never seen before.
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