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From: jimc@haddock.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Brazil -- a cautionary review
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Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 15:35:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 31 15:35:00 1986
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> "Brazil" is the *best* movie ever filmed.  It is "fucking
> brilliant".  If you see it and aren't completely fascinated with
> it, commit suicide now.  Take your kids to see it too -- it may
> disturb them enough so they will become warped and grow up to
> making fucking brilliant movies like "Brazil".  If you didn't
> like it and want to flame at me because you think suicide is too
> extreme, better do it via mail, because I don't read this
> newsgroup (just greping through the spool directories for
> interesting things)....  Maybe I would if the average movie were
> one one-thousandth as good as "Brazil".

Well, I think I can get on the net and say this one.  I don't
ever claim to speak for the everyone when I write a review, and
in making this assumption, I would therefore feel it improper
that people just take my advice (or anyone else's) without
question.  If you or anyone else happen to find _Brazil_ that
good, splendid.  I never said it wasn't good; it has some solid
production values with some good jokes.  I just found it
overbearing; there was just too much movie there to give me any
perspective on the film.  Another viewer may not think so.  Judge
for yourself.

I must, however, stand by my warning not to bring children.
There are many grotesque and frightening images in it (such as
the face lift scene, the nightmares, the torture scene, the
funeral, people getting bagged and carted away) which would
terrify the mind of one who is still learning to distinguish
objective reality from the images on television and in movies.
If you don't wish to take this advice blindly, then at least do
yourself and your children the favor of going without them first
and then deciding whether or not you want them to see it.

I do concede my two mistakes in my review: Coleridge's poem is
entitled "Kubla Khan", not "Tower of Kubla Khan" as I wrote.
Also, yes, Terry Gilliam is American, and in fact, he was also
responsible for much of the great animation we saw in the Monty
Python television program and films.  Please excuse my imperfect
memory.

				Jim Campbell