tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post114098643221223457..comments2023-10-11T03:42:59.033-07:00Comments on The Criterion Contraption: #51: BrazilMatthew Dessemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09288268335735601918noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-43353038434591151732014-04-09T16:28:12.680-07:002014-04-09T16:28:12.680-07:00شركة تنظيف منازل بالدمام
شركات تنظيف بالدمام
شركة ...<br /><a href="http://www.nile7.com/%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%8A%D9%81-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%84/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%8A%D9%81-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%84-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85" rel="nofollow">شركة تنظيف منازل بالدمام</a><br /><a href="http://www.nile7.com/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%8A%D9%81/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16779710057669710891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-29958012830368582092014-04-09T16:27:07.173-07:002014-04-09T16:27:07.173-07:00شركات مكافحة القوارض
شركة ابادة الحشرات
شركة مكافح...<a href="http://www.pest-control-company.org/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AD%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B6/" rel="nofollow">شركات مكافحة القوارض</a><br /><a href="http://www.pest-control-company.org/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA/" rel="nofollow">شركة ابادة الحشرات</a><br /><a hrefAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16779710057669710891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-24779170024115967812014-04-09T16:26:27.109-07:002014-04-09T16:26:27.109-07:00شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض
شركة تخزين اثاث
شركة نق...<br /><a href="http://www.kahtani.net/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AD%D8%A9-%D8%AD%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B6/" rel="nofollow">شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض </a><br /><a href="http://www.kahtani.net/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%AB/" rel="nofollow">شركة تخزين اثاث</a><br /><a href="http://Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16779710057669710891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-4631235455323798322012-04-09T13:16:31.884-07:002012-04-09T13:16:31.884-07:00lolwut, Anonymous of May 2011, u mad? Please note ...lolwut, Anonymous of May 2011, u mad? Please note that those are views incubated under, and propagated through patriarchy -- which, by the way, has both men and women as complicit. Irony, oh irony.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-22471821058783465842011-10-01T06:43:39.519-07:002011-10-01T06:43:39.519-07:00Wow, Anonymous of the double post, that was an ext...Wow, Anonymous of the double post, that was an extremely misogynist diatribe.Ed Buskirk Jr.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-60527142961369252402011-05-31T15:49:22.904-07:002011-05-31T15:49:22.904-07:00Like 1984 meets Monty Python. We need more movies ...Like 1984 meets Monty Python. We need more movies like this, especially today.<br /><br /><br /> I don't know what you guys are talking about about women however, the women were treated awfully? Other than being vain and ignorant, I don't see how thats very different to real life & I don't really sense any specific sort of venom being spewed in their direction.<br /><br /> AAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-3688859747101890442011-05-31T15:44:07.502-07:002011-05-31T15:44:07.502-07:00Like 1984 meets Monty Python. We need moore movies...Like 1984 meets Monty Python. We need moore movies like this, especially today.<br /><br /><br />I don't know what you guys are talking about. The women were treated awfully? Other than being vain and ignorant, I don't see how thats very different to real life & I don't really sense any specific sort of venom being spewed in their direction.<br /><br />A totalitarian bureaucracy Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-17461358524020024812010-12-27T00:16:29.393-08:002010-12-27T00:16:29.393-08:00Anonymous,
I would say that there's a differe...Anonymous,<br /><br />I would say that there's a difference between ignoring reality by living in a fantasy world and interacting with reality based on that fantasy world. Sam may have amazing dreams at the end but he doesn't leave his torture chair -- it's when he started thinking he could actually change things that everything went to shit.Matthew Dessemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288268335735601918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-4596684448236190432010-12-26T21:10:35.111-08:002010-12-26T21:10:35.111-08:00You make an interesting point about the fantasy, b...You make an interesting point about the fantasy, but it ignores the ending. In the end, LITERALLY the only way Sam can escape from the terrible situation he is now in is by going crazy and escaping into his own mind. I believe Gilliam's point there, and with the fantasy in general, is not that it's an ineffectual tool against the government, but that it's the only solution to a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-89084576918844584072010-04-08T08:55:42.157-07:002010-04-08T08:55:42.157-07:00A wonderful scene that NO ONE ever seems to notice...A wonderful scene that NO ONE ever seems to notice is the one is which Sam is riding home from work in a public transportation car that looks EXACTLY like Jill's cage in his daydreams. As the camera pans around the cage/car you see that all the occupants but one are men. The men are ALL SEATED and the one woman is standing... no one offers her his seat! The coup de grace is that the woman Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-68960037632632072542010-01-08T05:18:45.818-08:002010-01-08T05:18:45.818-08:00Maybe this is already mentioned, but Gilliam did n...Maybe this is already mentioned, but Gilliam did not get the "My God it works" line, so he cut it. He mentions this in the commentary.<br /><br />Unfortunately, that is my favorite line, and like the triplets line, shows Sam disconnect from everything.BladdyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00681665837616300585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-87488756961143369352010-01-06T19:59:21.093-08:002010-01-06T19:59:21.093-08:00This is a really insightful and terrific review of...This is a really insightful and terrific review of one of my favorite films. The Brazil set was my first Criterion set, and I love the abundance of extras and how much insight they give into the process. <br /><br />Thanks for sharing these thoughts. Really enjoyed reading it.Chris Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00959043583830345822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-60921131774617606242010-01-04T08:20:59.827-08:002010-01-04T08:20:59.827-08:00Actually, "My God, it works" is included...Actually, "My God, it works" is included in the Criterion DVD extra when Stoppard discusses the line. <br /><br />It was also in the original U.S. tape and laserdisc releases (of the Universal cut) on MCA Video. When Universal reissued it on DVD they used the international cut - slightly longer and with certain scenes reordered but missing that line.David Morgannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-83131323759484867772009-12-31T16:24:27.004-08:002009-12-31T16:24:27.004-08:00Okay, so I'm an idiot: much as I love Tom Stop...Okay, so I'm an idiot: much as I love Tom Stoppard, I don't get the "My God, it works" joke. I don't understand what Sam's thinking is that he would respond thus to his disfigured mother, except that he's going along with the doctor.<br /><br />On an unrelated note, about the eternal question of why people (like Roger Ebert) don't get Brazil: I think, first, thatupstillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09767586821776675222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-65453856096935511112009-08-19T13:08:17.859-07:002009-08-19T13:08:17.859-07:00gilliam doesn't seem to appreciate what timele...gilliam doesn't seem to appreciate what timeless, prophetic message he created. what they apparently put in there as gags -- for example, the children "playing" at the militant arrest of some bewildered citizen -- is chilling, not humorous. Well, it would be to anyone with any sense, I suppose.<br /><br />As for that triplets "joke," it seemed to highlite the insanity of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-17734493009207564122009-06-26T18:28:44.329-07:002009-06-26T18:28:44.329-07:00The joke about twins/triplets plays on the idea th...The joke about twins/triplets plays on the idea that somehow, after time, twins could become triplets.<br><br>Twins could grow up and become triplets (as if the third sibling had grown as a bud of the other two; very funny); or you start with twins and then, when another child is born, you now have triplets, which misunderstands an essential characteristic of twins and triplets: all members of Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04581745781650698772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-90924800536820511302008-03-11T12:16:00.000-07:002008-03-11T12:16:00.000-07:00Anonymous,You're right about the Universal disc. ...Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>You're right about the Universal disc. I also thought it was odd that they make a big deal about a line that's completely missing.Matthew Dessemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288268335735601918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-65989098317529813012008-03-05T11:57:00.000-08:002008-03-05T11:57:00.000-08:00Gilliam has said that he cut the "My God it works"...Gilliam has said that he cut the "My God it works" line from the European version for time, then regretted it and, when cutting out twenty minutes for the US version, he snuck it back in. I can't remember where he says it -- maybe the commentary, maybe the documentary, maybe in the Jack Matthews book.<BR/><BR/>What's odd is, given his stated affinity for the line, he didn't put it back in the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-969314869154099982007-11-16T16:38:00.000-08:002007-11-16T16:38:00.000-08:00Karl,Glad you enjoyed the review. But re: your po...Karl,<BR/><BR/>Glad you enjoyed the review. But re: your point (b), I don't think so. You've gotta note that the female characters are all portrayed pretty badly, except for Jill, who we know just about nothing about. But yeah, I agree with you about Gilliam's genius by putting Jack at the center of the film's moral abyss.Matthew Dessemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288268335735601918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-56227327962399797722007-10-29T12:15:00.000-07:002007-10-29T12:15:00.000-07:00First, thanks for such a detailed and considered r...First, thanks for such a detailed and considered review! Hat's off to you!<BR/><BR/>Second, thanks in particular for reviewing the 3- (or was it 4-disc?) box. I was reckoning that, personally, I did not need quite that much <I>Brazil</I> in my life; and I do feel that I did right in settling for the one-disc, 'no-frills', single-disc edition.<BR/><BR/>(a) Viz. "my God it works" -- I'll go backAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-41630847331108899932007-04-03T17:50:00.000-07:002007-04-03T17:50:00.000-07:00Leila,Glad you're enjoying the blog. Yeah, Brazil...Leila,<BR/><BR/>Glad you're enjoying the blog. Yeah, <I>Brazil</I> has some problems with women, and it's strange that it isn't commented on more frequently. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's as hostile to women as it is to fascism or bureaucracy, though, since it sees those systems as basically masculine. I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on a second viewing, actually, if your Matthew Dessemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288268335735601918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-61505197879387270962007-04-01T19:38:00.000-07:002007-04-01T19:38:00.000-07:00This is a great site - i've just discovered it!I m...This is a great site - i've just discovered it!<BR/><BR/>I must tell you something: I have been rating film reviewers for the past 20 years on whether or not they notice or comment on how women are treated in Brazil. You, unlike 99% of the reviewers, noticed.<BR/><BR/>I was 22 when I first saw the film and felt like I was kicked in the gut. The film, otherwise so intelligent and bracing, spewed Leilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03438591281630293844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-47816760826908649822007-03-20T01:09:00.000-07:002007-03-20T01:09:00.000-07:00Yeah, it's a good joke any way you look at it; I'm...Yeah, it's a good joke any way you look at it; I'm glad Gilliam left it in.Matthew Dessemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288268335735601918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-32725367924193479682007-03-20T00:22:00.000-07:002007-03-20T00:22:00.000-07:00Chalk me up as another "the triplets joke was a re...Chalk me up as another "the triplets joke was a reference to genetic engineering". But the best part is, it works either way. It's one of my favorite lines.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-1165008360290501352006-12-01T13:26:00.000-08:002006-12-01T13:26:00.000-08:00WIth respect to the "triplets" moment, I took it a...WIth respect to the "triplets" moment, I took it as a variant of genetic engineering or "test tube babies," and the wonderfully absurd idea that families in the world of Brazil would want to have three (or more) identical children, and have them not all at once, but spaced over time. I thought it was a very funny line.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com