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Brazil (1985)
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A clerical mistake becomes a catastrophe in a world whose machinery looks both absurdly elaborate and barely functional. Terry Gilliam makes ducts, forms and competing repair crews part of the same visual joke. The laughter has teeth: the system can describe its own violence as routine service. Choose the full-length version rather than the radically recut television ending.
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About Brazil
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.