: About Me

Untying Brazil I recently viewed a film that I had nearly brushed off as one of the most extraordinary Hollywood productions I have ever seen. Its chaos nearly blinds its point, but, with a watchful eye and an attitude that contradicts the likes of an 'oh, that's weird' mentality, I came to the conclusion that it would bring me great joy to deconstruct it. The movie is Terry Gilliam's 1987 surrealist film, Brazil. Set "somewhere in the 20th century", in a city that looks straight out of the German Expressionist movement of the 1920's; echoing the long lived cityscapes and bizarre sets of F...