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Library
Features Film Brazil
Brazil is a 1985 dystopian science fiction film directed by Terry
Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard. The
film stars Jonathan Pryce and features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist,
Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins and Ian Holm. It
centers on Sam Lowry, a man trying to find a woman who appears in his
dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living in a small
apartment, set in a consumer-driven dystopian world in which there is
an over-reliance on poorly maintained machines.
Brazil's bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of the
government depicted in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four except it
has a buffoonish, slapstick quality and lacks a Big Brother figure.
Film critic Jack Mathews described the film as "satirizing the
bureaucratic, largely dysfunctional industrial world that had been
driving Gilliam crazy all his life." It’s named after the recurrent
theme song, Ary Barroso's "Aquarela do Brasil", as performed by Geoff
Muldaur.
Join us at the Greenville Public Library on Thursday May 18th at 7
p.m. Ryan Carpe will be leading a brief discussion after the
movie and as always there will be free theater popcorn, candy, coffee,
and Jones Soda. We hope to see you there!
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