It's like he didn't pay very much attention to what was going on in the film. When the two guys from central services came, they came to fix Sam's AC. But, when Sam told them that the system had "fixed itself," they knew it had been tampered with and tried to force their way in to investigate. They were stopped from going in after Sam asked them for the 27B-6 paperwork, which they didn’t have. The two Central Services operatives came back later in the film with the appropriate paperwork and proceeded to take over and gut Sam's entire apartment as revenge, and _that_ is where the trouble with bureaucracy lies. They try to come off as helpful, but they are inefficient, ineffective, and petty. So, if they find out you went around them to get the job done instead of going through the "proper channels," they will punish you by deliberately wasting even more of your time and money by stalling work and fining you to death.
@cumulo25 Maybe in the "Love Conquers All" cut it two plumbers came before Robert De Niro's character? Couldn't find a way to watch this cut to check it. But it would be interesting to find out.
lol did you think this was going to be like a cinema sins or red letter media video? he's one of the most well respected living philosophers making an obscure reference to 200 year-old german idealism. and he described exactly what you're saying he didn't describe, he's just far more concise than you: "The intense rush of bureaucratic engagement serves nothing. it is the perrformance of its very purposelessness that generates an intense enjoyment, ready to reproduce itself forever."
As I get a bit older, I find myself reading this film less straightforwardly, not as some sort of stand against fascism, but an ambivalent psychological portrait. Tuttle is every bit as pathological as the workers from central services. He is not “free” at all; etc.
yeh people with low IQs see criticism of "fascism" or "capitalism" in every movie. But in reality the movie is more a parody of a bureaucratic system run rampant. The SYSTEM is the enemy.
yes, the person who tried to subvert the bureaucratic process was still consumed by it. meaning the hardworker was subverted by the collective procrastination of the bad bureaucrats ( people like you who cant follow simple logic, so they call everything dumb and stall progress because they're cool, edgy contrarians)
We don't need a radical atheist universe to take responsibility for our actions. The presence of God does not preclude free will, any more than the knowledge of who our parents are.
Is the book about neurolinguistics and it was a joke about hierarchical pyramid bureaucracy, that God created our reality based on information, thus smallest qt. conservation condition is not energy, mass, or momentum but energy bit, and Natures laws are based on a fractal pyramid hierarchical structure where a big thing is just a smaller thing with the same laws of physics processes. And is a sarcastic replica of the bureaucracy system, just one part of a smaller fractal. Look official makes laws based on fractal structure law inside smaller law and etc., same as God. Can we judge politicians? In REALITY politicians DOING GOD"S JOB :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Sarcasm overload ;)
I never understood why this film was called Brazil until one day I was thinking about what writing a story about a left-wing, dystopian, nightmare world and the first thought that came to mind was to call it "Brazil!", and then I was like, "Oh. Oh! Oh..."
Terry Gilliam intended the title to invoke a sense of musical escapism to some far-off Latin beachscape, via the main character's repetition of a song called Aquarela do Brasil. Far from being a condemnation of Brazil itself or leftism, I don't see how anyone could miss that it's a condemnation of corporate life as a whole. It could easily be a right-wing oligarchical state - the beauty is in not knowing for sure. In fact, a pre-production title was 1984 1/2, referencing a novel which itself can be seen as a critique of both socialism and right wing authoritarianism depending on who's reading. The overall message I gather is that authoritarianism corrupts whoever wields it, whether right or left.
Left-wing, dystopian nightmare world? What the fuck are you on about?! We were in a right-wing military dictatorship for more than two decades. We still never had a communist government, but rather only centrist liberal faux-socialism. You know nothing, gringo.
@@Mwstmrlnd I get that, but it pertains way more to leftism, as seen by the riots of 2020, of which were corporate backed, and despite being Marxist in nature, saw the police protecting the rioters, making it a weird hybrid of corporate-communist-fascism akin to Brazil.
@@jamesc.e.s.4551 1. How does it apply to rioting, it is about bureaucracy, kind of the opposite of chaotic rioting. I makes no sense that rioting would both be marxist and supported by cooperations (Marxist are kind of anti cooperations). In reality it was mostly about racial injustice. If anything the protagonists (especially de Nero) are people rioting against the system 2. There was also a bunch of police clashing with protesters, although sometimes there were attempts to deescalate. From whom would they even protect the rioters? 3. When was Brazil "corperate-communist-fasicm"? It was a military dictatorship (with deep conservative and religious values) until the 90s (the movie is from 1985 btw so saying it somehow comments on left regimes in Brazil is bizarre) and after that a democracy mostly governed by left leaning governments. Your comment is just a bunch of trigger words you heard and has nothing to do with reality and consequently your interpretation of the movie is just nonsense, born from ideology.
@@fabianstein6137 I'm speaking of the government the left is forcing on us and has forced in the past, ie. Soviet Russia, Maoist China etc. Wholly abysmal, nightmare, authoritarian police states. The rioters were propped up by corporations and local governments, and were protected by police while innocent people defending themselves were arrested for "fascist wrong-think."
