Original Date posted: Sat, 23 August 2003 10:14:04
Post: I watched Brazil and it just didn't appeal. Spoilers herein.
I understand how others have enjoyed it, for instance the future that holds an essence of the past - along with small tidbit sayings that appear thoughout, such as:
"Sam Lowry: How are the twins?
Jack Lint: Triplets.
Sam Lowry: My, how time flies!"
These made me chuckle.
What I didn't like. The pipes, these just annoy me despite their representation and meaning within the movie - the strangling hold, the clutter, the concealed mess that overflows - a definition of the movie itself. The primitive animal-like noise they produce.
Watching this movie I simply became more and more frustrated, so much so that I had to turn it off and take a break before watching the last half hour. The movie lacked a basic structure. Bounding through random hallucinations it just became a mesmerizing downward spiral with added extravagant and exagerated ideas and concepts poured in to add depth. This coupled with poor production and very shoddy effects provide for an unpleasant viewing expirience. In watching the movie I felt like Mr Tuttle when the papers kept coming at him - a moments peace could not be had.
I am not saying this movie shouldn't be a classic. It has much more going for it than many other movies, particularly in the sci-fi fantasy genres. I am saying that this movie was not enjoyed - I do not enjoy watching people stumble, make mistakes and suffer effects of misunderstandings and comic errors. The story, although being a fantasy became inplausible, impossible and blurred. I did not feel the need to watch more as there was no suspense, there was no desire to know what was happening or what was going to happen - why would there be when all the movie is doing is expanding on a basic idea while deviating further from the norm. Any conclusion that could have been provided would not have accounted for the mess preceding it.
If I could sum up my prescise feelings on this movie it would be through a quote from it,
"What is this mess? An empty desk is an efficient desk."
The mental escape of the main character at the end of the movie, his desired freedom from such a reality was the same feeling I had as the credits began to "appear".
Post: I watched Brazil and it just didn't appeal. Spoilers herein.
I understand how others have enjoyed it, for instance the future that holds an essence of the past - along with small tidbit sayings that appear thoughout, such as:
"Sam Lowry: How are the twins?
Jack Lint: Triplets.
Sam Lowry: My, how time flies!"
These made me chuckle.
What I didn't like. The pipes, these just annoy me despite their representation and meaning within the movie - the strangling hold, the clutter, the concealed mess that overflows - a definition of the movie itself. The primitive animal-like noise they produce.
Watching this movie I simply became more and more frustrated, so much so that I had to turn it off and take a break before watching the last half hour. The movie lacked a basic structure. Bounding through random hallucinations it just became a mesmerizing downward spiral with added extravagant and exagerated ideas and concepts poured in to add depth. This coupled with poor production and very shoddy effects provide for an unpleasant viewing expirience. In watching the movie I felt like Mr Tuttle when the papers kept coming at him - a moments peace could not be had.
I am not saying this movie shouldn't be a classic. It has much more going for it than many other movies, particularly in the sci-fi fantasy genres. I am saying that this movie was not enjoyed - I do not enjoy watching people stumble, make mistakes and suffer effects of misunderstandings and comic errors. The story, although being a fantasy became inplausible, impossible and blurred. I did not feel the need to watch more as there was no suspense, there was no desire to know what was happening or what was going to happen - why would there be when all the movie is doing is expanding on a basic idea while deviating further from the norm. Any conclusion that could have been provided would not have accounted for the mess preceding it.
If I could sum up my prescise feelings on this movie it would be through a quote from it,
"What is this mess? An empty desk is an efficient desk."
The mental escape of the main character at the end of the movie, his desired freedom from such a reality was the same feeling I had as the credits began to "appear".
Posted by FofR
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