14:24 this could actually be a reference to the northern Irish game of “foot patrols” which Kids played during the troubles. They would pretend to perform searches on suspects and perform arrests as they were common there
I think it's kinda funny that critics who praised 2001 are the same people who panned A Clockwork Orange. They weren't big fans of Kubrick's rather pessimistic view of human nature, but... In 2001, Kubrick literally shows that people started using tools because some weird aliens helped them via monoliths. In A Clockwork Orange, however, Kubrick demonstrates almost a... Christian moral. Let me explain. The whole point of the story (the point is a lot clearer in the novel, by the way) is something like that: you cannot COMPEL someone to step onto the path of righteousness. They have to WISH to step onto this path. According to Christianity, God gave us free will EXACTLY for that. We have a choice to either be righteous or sinful. Some people think that this choice is an illusion, because God will punish us if we are sinful. This way, he compels us to be rightful. However, it is not exactly that. The idea is supposed to be that we will use our free will to understand that we should be righteous... WHICH IS ALSO THE POINT OF THE FILM!!!
look at the picture he uses for Sweden when he mentions it being banned in Sweden dude is based 😭😭 also RIP long haired man, can’t spell his name, su1cide is always sad
i watched a video essay of this film on YT (i’ve owned the criterion collection version of this since i was 13 years old) and some dude said he used to leave blank VHS tapes of this movie on random buses and trains in europe LMAOOOO can you imagine just finding a blank VHS olof this and watching it with no context, especially since so much of it is realistic and they really went for the “found footage” thing YEARS before the had become popular, or “mainstream” even in America i still chuckle thinking about that comment and i hope the person who wrote it really did that and wasn’t just lying there was a movie from the 70s that someone found and watched and reported to the FBI because they thought it was real, forgot the name
This page is fantastic! Great work man. Huge film fan myself, I was looking more into this movie and Pasolini himself after I struggled to find why people thought this was such a masterpiece but terrifically explained, as much as I question Pasolini personal life I’m big on separating the art from the artist and this was a great piece of work as a whole
Just watched this movie right now. I thought it was messed up, but saw no point to it. Your analysis made me see it in a new light. Great points of view
I appreciate the technical brilliance that is Brazil, I appreciate the filmmakers bold attempt at stopping a studio from castrating his ultimate vision, I appreciate the screen writers attempts at saying something about modern life, and the acceptance of morally wrong things in exchange for some form of comfort. Etc. etc. etc. I respect all of these things, but in the end, I have to admit as much as I try I just don’t like the film, it feels so disjointed and jumbled that in the end, even though I want to like it, I don’t like it. I love Gilliam as a Director. I just find this one to be a slog to get through albeit a slog with moments of sheer brilliance peppered throughout. I commend this video as an absolutely expert dissection of what Brazil is, in the end it’s up to the viewer whether they’re receiving what the filmmaker is sending, in this case I didn’t.
Takes real guts to go back over a show from the 90s that everyone has already dissected like an insect under an electron microscope. Kudos. I strongly disagree with much or most of what you said but it did offer some new insights which are always appreciated. Looking at all views or sides without being biased, that's the neatest thing about the show. I always seem to find small clues to things I somehow missed. Thumbs up for keeping the _dream_ alive.
It's a movie, if you get the message then fantastic, if you don't then just move on. Personally I think it has alot to say about the world, not just Serbia, really don't know why people get uptight about all this.
I admire anyone who can get a film made. But with Boll I could never shake the feeling that if he had taken his initiative and his knowledge of financing and distribution and had PRODUCED movies for talented, hungry filmmakers. He could have become one of the greatest independent producers in the world. Instead he took all of that money, those actors and those IPs and made absolute shit out of them. He pissed away all of those resources because HE had to be the director. Imagine if he'd found the next James Wan or Mike Flanagan and had given him free reign over something like ALONE IN THE DARK or HOUSE OF THE DEAD. To me THAT will always be the true tragedy of his career. That he wasted it on himself.
Very honest and candid. Uwe needed to stay German enough to persist, with his distance to US-intrinsic self-rightheousness and conformism. Zu seinem Glück. I take this documentary as an invitation, thank you.
Broke: directors making cameos in their own films to drop hard Rs Bespoke: directors making a film about Auschwitz and making a cameo as a gas chamber usher
This was a treat. I love Postal and Rampage. I used to hate Uwe Boll, but I really warmed up to him when I realized most of his critics were degenerates.
