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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (Mr. Blore)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: A BRAZIL question (SPOILER)
Message-ID: <1148@udenva.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 02:36:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 18 02:36:39 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Feb-86 01:08:04 EST
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Reply-To: showard@udenva.UUCP (Mr. Blore)
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Keywords: Spoilers out the wazoo

In article <378@watdragon.UUCP> wasaunders@watdragon.UUCP (Alec Saunders) writes:
>
>                             However Jill gets away (she's dead so far as
>the world is concerned),

  I'm not so sure of that.  When the Information Retrieval boys burst into the
bedroom, Sam protests, "No, she's dead, this is just a friend of mine" and is
hauled off to be tortured. We don't know what's happened to Jill.

>From his point of view how can you argue that it's sad? 

  Well, it's sad in that the trauma of being tortured by a man who he thought
was his friend has forced him to retreat into his little fantasy world.  Also
it's not the same fantasy world as his original one, with him as the winged
hero and Jill as the long-haired angel in distress--now the dream figures are
the same as the real world ones.

>We would like to see good triumph over evil, but it doesn't happen.

  I don't think anybody was "good" or "evil" in this film.  Substitute "We
would like to see an individual's common sense triumph over bureaucratic
blindness".
>
>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.

  I think there were terrorists, unless maybe the Philadelphia police depart-
ment was involved.  Tuttle wasn't a terrorist, just an individual trapped in
a mass produced world.  Jill wasn't either.  Sam suspected her of being a
terrorist ("Don't suspect a friend, report him") but she turned out to be just
a truck driver (the "bomb" parcel actually had those little guillotine things
everybody got for Christmas).

"It's only a state of mind"
-- 
Mr. Blore, the DJ who would not die
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