Terry Gilliam is the one of those directors I've heard nothing but great things about, who's work I am mostly unfamiliar with. Not counting 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail', this will be my first foray into Gilliam's visual wonders.
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Ian Holm
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
The Positives:
- It's like 'The Office' meets 'Minority Report' with a dash of 'V for Vendetta' peppered about.
- The humor is excellent, especially the take on the government being completely self reliant on paper work.
- Also a very excellent/humorous observation: Despite making our lives easier, technology is getting more and more complicated.
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
The Positives:
- It's like 'The Office' meets 'Minority Report' with a dash of 'V for Vendetta' peppered about.
- The humor is excellent, especially the take on the government being completely self reliant on paper work.
- Also a very excellent/humorous observation: Despite making our lives easier, technology is getting more and more complicated.
- The score of 'Brazil' is the perfect blend of peppy and chilling.
- I love the design of the futuristic computers. Type writers + iPhone sized monitors + Magnifying glass = Genius.
- Shoe hats. Equally genius.
The Negatives:
- Holy crap, this film is long. While it drags at times, even the most dull scenes are kind of charming.
- The film's color scheme is made up of mostly grays, and though it fits the drab tone it kind of makes the film feel dull and lifeless at times, and thus loses my attention.
Grade: B
While the flick could've used a good thinning out, Terry Gilliam has created a hilarious dystopian tour de force.
- I love the design of the futuristic computers. Type writers + iPhone sized monitors + Magnifying glass = Genius.
- Shoe hats. Equally genius.
- Jonathan Pryce plays a very good well-to-do government paper pusher.
- The scene toward the end where Sam is hanging in one of those straight jacket hoods, moving down the assembly line of executives as the screaming gets louder and louder with each one, genuinely frightened me. The forced perspective from Sam's hood certainly helped.
- The thing that creeped me out the most, however, were the extremely unsettling baby masks.
- For a flick that takes place in all of about three buildings, the scope of the film feels epic. I believe this falls back of Terry Gilliam's excellent visual direction.
- The end is a schizophrenic nightmare... and it's perfect.
The Negatives:
- Holy crap, this film is long. While it drags at times, even the most dull scenes are kind of charming.
- The film's color scheme is made up of mostly grays, and though it fits the drab tone it kind of makes the film feel dull and lifeless at times, and thus loses my attention.
Grade: B
While the flick could've used a good thinning out, Terry Gilliam has created a hilarious dystopian tour de force.
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