Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watarts.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!pesnta!pyramid!decwrl!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!burl!clyde!watmath!watarts!mupmalis From: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (M. A. Upmalis) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Brazil Message-ID: <8659@watarts.UUCP> Date: Sun, 16-Feb-86 19:59:10 EST Article-I.D.: watarts.8659 Posted: Sun Feb 16 19:59:10 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Feb-86 00:17:37 EST References: <1381@fisher.UUCP> <703@harvard.UUCP> Reply-To: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (M. A. Upmalis) Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 31 In article <703@harvard.UUCP> lo@harvard.UUCP (Bert S.F. Lo) writes: >I agree that this movie is great to watch and it is certainly extremely >entertaining, but for me, it had about as much depth/substance as a video. >I'm sure you could discuss all the effects and stunts and crazy use of the >camera and editing, but the movie doesn't really have any new or novel ideas >to discuss. > Oh there is an interesting fundamental lesson, Gilliam and Stoppard have taken the step beyond Orwell. Orwell thought that the evil of a totalitarian government would be a purpose, G and S show that evil and destruction is a byproduct of the bureaucracy that makes up the government. In the visual look of the film is a close correspondence to the ideas that are present in the characters action and words. Gilliam has a movie that in different levels of texture show a close similarity, even a harmony of purpose, and when he wants to show you something the contrast from one minute to the other (the cheers of "we did it, we did it" followed by the shot of the burning policeman, the torturer, played with great depth by Michael Palin, going from the bloody smock to playing with his daughter). I saw Brazil a few days ago and I have to see it again, there is something about this film that is very special, and the flaws that are there come only from the great effort to make this very splendid film. -- Mike Upmalis (mupmalis@watarts) ihnp4!watmath!watarts!mupmalis Chemistry is useful both in Modern Medicine and the treatment of Steel. Mr. Sanderson in "Big Meat Eater"