Brazil is the movie that basically called what the future would look like: it’s crass, materialistic, everything runs like shit, the people in power are authoritarian buffoons, and it sort of limps on despite the fact that it should fall apart. - ThreadSky

zeblarson.bsky.social • 18 days ago

Brazil is the movie that basically called what the future would look like: it’s crass, materialistic, everything runs like shit, the people in power are authoritarian buffoons, and it sort of limps on despite the fact that it should fall apart.

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day-at-night.bsky.social•18 days ago

I will never forget the despair I felt after the first time I watched Brazil. Mainly because, yeah, I feel that way whenever I read the news now.

zeblarson.bsky.social•18 days ago

Yeah it’s an amazing movie that way, you can both laugh your ass off and also be holding your head in your hands in despair

cirquedusynth.bsky.social•18 days ago

It’s a movie that’s made scarier by being a comedy (albeit the darkest of dark comedies)

mr-oldman.bsky.social•18 days ago

Didn’t they make a documentary with the same theme?

yesbiscuit.bsky.social•18 days ago

At least it has a happy ending, in a way.

zeblarson.bsky.social•18 days ago

Descent into escapist madness seems…I dunno, like they can’t fully break us? Maybe?

yesbiscuit.bsky.social•18 days ago

Or we could die in our dreamworlds. I guess we should take whatever we can get before the monsters get our flesh.

paradeocrap.bsky.social•18 days ago

I’ve made this argument myself. (I am the kind of person who hits snooze so I can remember my morning dreams)

escapepodready.bsky.social•18 days ago

Huh? He loses his mind.

thornsoftristan.bsky.social•18 days ago

A win for totalitarianism =/= "a happy ending"

yellinatseagulls.bsky.social•18 days ago

And De Niro is still the rebel plumber I believe.

harpharpsichord.bsky.social•18 days ago

When I taught English I would screen Brazil for my students after they read 1984.

unwittinggenius.bsky.social•18 days ago

Was therapy offered as a dessert?

kenithehated.bsky.social•18 days ago

You misspelled u.s.a

kenithehated.bsky.social•18 days ago

jennofark.bsky.social•18 days ago

If we don't run them out, every day of the next 4 years is just going to be another variation of the Tuttle/Buttle incident.

patternnest.bsky.social•18 days ago

Yeah, lately the theme song from that movie keeps playing in my head.

uzzamodea.bsky.social•18 days ago

Transmetropolitan comic series hits this way too

boredompeejeterson.bsky.social•18 days ago

Brazil? More like Italy

graeme985.bsky.social•18 days ago

1984

fassy33.bsky.social•18 days ago

It’s genius. Has been in my top 5 since I watched it in the 90s.

timocracynow.bsky.social•18 days ago

Seeing as it was a projection based on Reaganism, and we're feeling the effects of that trickle down scam, it makes sense it'd seem so prescient.

farworse.bsky.social•18 days ago

Cut their legs off so the limping stops.

brotherd66.bsky.social•18 days ago

Also, the “Terrorists” are the guys who just want to keep the basic services running.

matthillica.bsky.social•18 days ago

Favorite movie of all time. Always suspected I’d get to live it one day.

zeblarson.bsky.social•18 days ago

Great movie. Not happy to be living it, but I guess it’s better than 12 Monkeys?

matthillica.bsky.social•18 days ago

True… but we’ll have to see how this whole “bird flu” thing plays out, I guess. Dare to dream!

moddyfire.bsky.social•18 days ago

My fav movie of all time. Or maybe the third.

emi8ime.bsky.social•18 days ago

MarALago

patterkev.bsky.social•18 days ago

I think Terry Gilliam tried to deliver the message with dark humor in Brazil. When we didn’t listen, he gave us 12 Monkeys.

earthfan.bsky.social•18 days ago

Plan to watch it. Nice introduction.

escapepodready.bsky.social•18 days ago

Among my faves.

materaki.bsky.social•18 days ago

Need to go back and rewatch. It’s been a minute

sionxxii.bsky.social•18 days ago

the version i saw in nyc in 1985 when it debuted was and is unlike any cut i've seen since. If you know Karen Allen, ask her about it. she was sitting in front of me in the theater.