Brazil Analysis

Ever wonder what type of genre is this specific film? It’s obvious to say that this movie known as “Brazil” is of the topic Science Fiction! I knew it from the moment I saw that the setting was taking place in a dark futuristic world where technology and corrupted bureaucracy rules with an iron fist. I must admit that the author Terry Gilliam really did an impressive job with adding different characteristics that explains the specific genre. Compared to the other science fiction films I had watched before, this film had not much conflict, action, or dangerous fight scenes unlike Johnny Mnemonic and 12 Monkeys. It was more of a drama mixed with psychological themes because the protagonist Sam Lowry is a man who was trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job set in a consumer-driven dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained machines. This man always dreamed of being a hero, or in his point of view, an angel, in which he rescues a damsel in distress from enemies. This shows that he probably does this in order to escape the cruel reality of the outside world. In the end, I was disappointed with the film ending because I didn’t realized it was all a product of Sam’s delusions since he was still strapped to the chair and observed by the scientists due to him descending into blissful insanity. I would have been better if he ended up with the girl of his dreams.