Brazil essay

After watching the film Brazil, I was extremely impressed with how the film’s crators grabbed the attention of their audience and where able to get their ideas across. Terry Gilliam, the director, and his crew perfectly captured the dystopian look and lifestyle through the surrounding of the main character Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) and the characters we meet through him. The movie is a jigsaw puzzle where every piece serves its own unique purpose to show the viewer a bigger picture. The 1985 film is set in a dystopian world marred by oppressive automatization and towering bureaucracy, and populated by tyrannical guard who strongarm lawbreakers. Jonathan Pryce plays Sam Lowry, a low level government worker who chooses to blind himself to the decaying, drone-like world around him. Whenever real life becomes too oppressive, Sam fantasizes (to the tune of Ary Baroso’s 1930s hit “Brazil”) about sailing through the clouds as a winged superhero, and rescuing beautiful Jill Layton (Kim Greist) from a giant, Samurai warrior. When a “bug falls into a computer that controls everything in the "real" world it malfunctions, causing an innocent citizen to be arrested and tortured to death. When Sam routinely investigates the error, he runs into literally the girl of his dreams Jill and he pursues her. But in real life, she's a tough-as-nails truck driver who initially wants nothing to do with him. She turn out to be suspected of underground activities, in connection with a terrorist network wanted for bombing public places. Sam uses his connections to move up the government totem pole to help Jill