Brazil (1985) Not The Country Either

1985's Brazil showed a completely dystopian vision of the future with a bureaucratic government. The movie is about a government worker by the name of Sam Lowry and his many misfortunes throughout his journey to save a woman by the name of Jill Layton.

Personally to me, this movie was a mirror of current-day America. The reason for this was because of how the people lived, not the standpoints of the government and their bureaucratic views. The reason for the people is with the older females in the movie. The two eldest women, Ida Lowry and Alma Terrain, are obsessed with their looks so they result to expensive and dangerous plastic surgery. This mirrors current-day America because of the way that women are objectified in the media and made to feel uncomfortable in their own skin in which they result to risky surgery to fix their supposed problems. Another reason is the way the government woulkd torure the accused until they pled guilty. This makes me think of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the US prison that accused terrorists are held in.

Overall this movie paints a clear picture and even though it dragged out it had a thorough meaning which made up for the wild storyline. I give this movie a 3 and a half out of five on a overall level and a perfect 5 on the meaning of the movie and how it relates to today.