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Brazil

Terry Gilliam · 1985 CE · Film · English · Contemporary

A clerk in a ministry of information spends his days correcting paperwork and his nights dreaming of flight, until a misprinted name sends the wrong man to a cell. Chasing the error, he meets the woman from his dreams and starts forging his way through a bureaucracy of ducts, forms and receipts. Gilliam's retro-future dystopia reached American screens only after a public fight with its studio over the cut.

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Attributes

Genre
Science FictionSatireFantasy
Theme
Individual vs SocietyExistential AbsurdityPower & Corruption
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
EverymanVillain / TyrantRebel / Outlaw
Plot structure
Dream VisionLabyrinth PlotIronic Reversal
Symbol / motif
The MachineThe DreamWings / Flight
Conflict
vs Societyvs Technology
Mode / tone
SatiricalAbsurdistIronic
Culture / tradition
English

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