Brazil movie: as prescient as ever, 40 years later

https://www.theverge.com/film/719308/brazil-movie-terry-gilliam-criterion-4k-restoration

by janandonly • 12 months ago

32 6 12 months ago

vdupras2• 12 months ago

Brazil also imagines a hyper-efficient future ...

I don't think that's how I'd call it. The future in Brazil looks deeply dysfunctional to me. About as efficient as a car with no wheel revving up to its maximum capacity. It's just that everyone is extremely busy.

Maybe that a better way to say this would be that the society as a whole has a fixation on a certain idea of efficiency?

aalvarado3• 12 months ago

From what I remember, everything was half done because of the amount of paperwork and permissions required to do something. Pacino's scene was great in showing how something could be fixed by a worker bending the rules

vdupras2• 12 months ago

Pacino? De Niro maybe?

aalvarado3• 12 months ago

I recently saw a video talking about how bureaucracy legitimizes theft and other crimes. It mentioned a laundry list of negative factors about it. It was layers of obstacles designed to obscure the real cause. Makes me think about how many lands have been stolen by the government simply because the previous owners lost them for technicalities, lack of access to documents or some other modern nonsense

asdffdasy• 12 months ago

it's pretty well documented in the history of Los Angeles.

Brazil movie: as prescient as ever, 40 years later

Related Stories