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Just as Orwells 1984 is a variation of our present, future and past, Brazil is also a game with Orwell. Brazil creates a world that doesn't look dissimilar to ours - apart from the fact that it is much darker and some technical standards have already been further developed. Fortunately, the political system is not ours either. The society in Brazil is controlled by a comprehensive organization, so that only a life full of paranoia remains for the citizen. The police resemble a terror command to hunt dissidents. Life is disgusting and mean. Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) lives his miserable life here and basically always works at the computer screen. Every now and then, when the boss is absent, he takes a break together with his colleagues, hides the monitur and watches old TV classics. Sam knows exactly how bleak his life is. All he can do is escape into daydreams in which a breathtakingly beautiful woman appears to him. But then the confusion: Instead of the terrorist Tuttle (Robert De Niro), an innocent family man is tortured to death. Sam is supposed to process this "accident" for the bereaved. During this mission he finally meets the woman of his dreams... Brazil seems like a recourse to the psychedelic cinema of the 60s. An anarcho version, in which the recipe is to simply turn everything into a monstrous! Director and co-writer Terry Gilliam was allowed to unlock and rule. Without financial restrictions (which he should never be granted again afterwards)! Gilliam stages apocalyptic scenarios, impressive special effects or dreamlike sets without any discipline! It seems as if Gilliam has written down all his fantasies, regardless of how they are to be brought to the screen. Even more: No matter if it all makes sense or not. Brazil is an extraordinarily difficult film. I have now seen it for the second time and could still hardly follow. Which characters serve which purpose? Who is who? Clarity is not the ultimate goal of this paranoid vision. We experience very personal moments of the author Gilliam, then again grim humor to distance himself from the events. I liked the simplest scenes during office hours best. I secretly thought that simplicity was a virtue after all - not an enemy to be fought against...