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With Jonathan Pryce, Ian Holm, Katherine Helmond, Robert DeNiro, Michael Palin, Bob Hoskins, Ian Richardson Directed by Terry Gilliam After his great stints with Monty Python and on solo feature trips with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits, Gilliam truly found his voice in this incredible cinematic landmark. Fusing a doomed, autocratic future of disorganized retro technology with a fantasy dream world, we're thrown into the consequences of an administrative blunder that leads to the opening of a grey corporate pencil pusher's eyes to the oppressive truth of the system he serves. The look, mood and design of the film is timeless and has become the template for many movies set in the future. Lowry is the grey man in question, who literally takes flight in his dreams. He is one of the few people with a bout of conscience, and when the powers that be incarcerates the wrong man (the above mentioned blunder), he heads out to the family's dreary flat complex and accidentally spots the  woman
of
his
dreams
(literally
-
the
damsel
in
his
dream
world).
With its surreal realm and Gilliam touch, Brazil is still in a league of its own and a must-see. 6 / A - PB 1 2 3 4 5 6 A - B - C |
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