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: A BRAZIL question (SPOILER?) Message-ID: <8660@watarts.UUCP> Date: Sun, 16-Feb-86 20:16:18 EST Article-I.D.: watarts.8660 Posted: Sun Feb 16 20:16:18 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Feb-86 00:17:50 EST References: <11000015@ada-uts> <10700133@uiucdcs> <378@watdragon.UUCP> <718@harvard.UUCP> Reply-To: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (M. A. Upmalis) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 39 In article <718@harvard.UUCP> lo@harvard.UUCP (Bert S.F. Lo) writes: >> I have another question - or maybe a theory ... I think that there were no >> terrorists. I think that the government was the "terrorists" and was using >> fear of terrorism to control the population. Does this seem reasonable to >> anyone else? This would make Jill and Harry Tuttle much stronger symbols in >> the film. > >How exactly was the government using the "terrorists" to control the >population? Nobody seemed the least bit phased by the bombings, except, >of course, for the injured. There was some suggestionin my mind that in _1984_ the war wasn't really happening, the idea of an external enemy has been used effectively as a means of controlling the populace to draw in and do things to protect themselves (remember the children playing information retrieval games with the one child with the bag over his head?). The posters throughout, the acceptance with things as they were are factilitated by the enemy without/within. Witness the Soviet state (especially Stalinism), witness McCarthyism for similar instances. > >By the way, to whomever said that the movie was "jumpin'", I would be >interested in hearing some of the things you found worth discussing >about the movie. As I said, I liked the movie but it seemed that most >of the ideas you mention the movie presenting aren't fleshed out enough. >They all seemed to be drowned in the style and pace. > The movie was also concenred with Sam's discovery of the state around him. He really didn't understand the workings of it, preferring to be in his own world, the confusion of his experiences distorts our own perception of the reality of the _Brazil_ world. I found it a bit slow a first, but the pace accelerated into the movie. -- 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"