Personal Opinion.

We think that science-fiction films are very complicated to understand because there are a lot of things that cannot be easily explained, and sometimes our minds are not used to see or imagine worlds like the ones sci-fi directors create. However, we liked how the comedy genre was shown, for the irony about some topic is well- expressed. For example, the way they laughed at London society and its bureaucracy.

This film is also related to many issues that take place nowadays in our society, and the way these themes were explained or shown makes us think about how the director managed to almost predict the future. For instance, plastic surgery is discussed as one of the main issues in the film, and if we relate this part of “Brazil” with what we are living in today’s world, we can say that Terry Gilliam was brilliant, and foretold what it was supposed to happen in such a superficial world.

We are satisfied and happy with our blog because it made us think and look beyond the movie. We did not see only to the superficial aspects of the film, but we paid attention to some technical and cultural elements of it. We are pleased with our work, and think we did a complete blog with all the elements we could find in the movie, and necessary information to inform our classmates about this Terry Gilliam’s masterpiece.

Brazil v/s Rebel Without a Cause

The last blog tasks that we were given, was to compare our blog with a classmate’s. At first we found impossible to compare such a particular movie like “Brazil” with any other because this was the only one that escapes so far from reality, and that mixes so many genres. We even tried to compare movies with the year in which they were filmed, but it was also impossible. Finally, something indicated us that we were not looking further, but we were staying in the technical aspects of it. So, we found “Rebel without a Cause”, a movie that laughs of society just like “Brazil” does.

In both films we find ridiculed characters. For instance; in Brazil, the mother of the main character is addicted to plastic surgery, while in Rebel without a Cause, the father of the protagonist is very passive, and his mother very possessive and even a little aggressive.

Other element that can be put in comparison, is the fact that both main characters felt awkward inside their society, no matter what was the time in which they were filmed (Brazil 1985, Rebel without a Cause 1955), but they were both uncomfortable, and both felt their society was full of phony people. We can see that the two of the films show how they reacted against the society. While Jim Stark (James Dean) was a rebel and was only worried about getting into problems, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) did everything he could to stay out of problems.

As this is the last blog task we have to answer, we would like to say that we really enjoyed doing this piece of work because we think we actually learn how to analyze a movie from different points of view. We learnt a lot about the movie “Brazil” and the others our classmates did. We hope you have enjoyed our blog!
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