Monday, October 16, 2006

Brazil

Brazil, indeed one of the worst movies I have ever seen. First, I did not understand why was there so many bombing and people dying here and there even in restaurants and public places. It was so unrealistic in the beginning already, showing people dying at the back of them while Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) was so call celebrating his birthday with his mom, Mrs. Ida Lowry (Katherine Helmond) and her friends. There are a few things that I find it silly and one of them is when the telegram girl came crashing into Sam’s house, dancing wildly, while singing in an absurdly high soprano. At that very point, I felt like cursing the movie.
There were parts in the movie which until now, I do not understand. One of them was the scene where Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle (Robert De Niro) came in to the picture. I did not understand the part where Tuttle came and fix Sam’s air con that broke down. There was also another part where Tuttle shit into people’s suit when the people were in the room. The cold humor in that particular scene did in a way made me laugh, but only after seconds after the scene toke place.
The gadgets that were shown in the movie was the interesting part. I fancy the televisions that were used in the movie. It looked like an on old television but in the same time, it looks like a technology from the future. The computers used in the movies were also uniquely funny yet very high tech. there were parts in the movie where the positioning of the camera played a big part and one of which was the scene where the camera moved from Sam’s face that was facing the computer, to the back of the computer and made the computer looked like a magnifying glass.
The part where Sam was dreaming was the real confusing and really stupid part. But I maybe it is there for a reason that is to show how Sam’s life is in such a boring routine and actually all he wanted is to be with his dream girl. In his dreams, he just wanted to save the girl and be with her but there were so many enemies and evil that tries to stop him from getting to his dream girl. In the end of the movie, he was so caught up with his dreams he could not focus on the reality anymore and became insane. This thing will happen if we do not control our fantasies and dreams and let them overpower the reality part of our lives.

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