Plastic surgery in "Brazil"

Plastic surgery is a medical intervention that uses some techniques to change the appearance and function of a person's body. Plastic surgery procedures include both cosmetic enhancements as well as functionally reconstructive operations. (http://www.wikipedia.org/)

We can notice that in the movie the plastic surgery is an important issue for the eldest age, the protagonist’s mother is obsessed with this procedure. The movie was made in 1985, at that time, plastic surgery was new and a revolutionary invention, but it was not as popular as it is today. Only if it was extremely necessary women would have an intervention, most of the cases were concerning about a health problem.

In the movie this surgery is used with a cosmetic ideology. If women had an appearance or aspect that they didn’t like they would get this operation. Eventually, a woman died abusing of the plastic procedure, but she used it with a cosmetic ideal. Because it wasn’t as popular as now, Terry Gilliam propose that this intervention is a superficial issue that affects a big part of women population, so he is muffing about this topic, which is used in an ironic terminology.