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Brazil is magnetically charming and terrifying by turns as we live through Sam's dual existence, one fantasy and the other reality. And although the film shifts tones frequently between comforting and disconcerting, beautiful and disturbing, fanciful and bleak, Brazil is a sobering experience and an effective warning against the depersonalization of individuals in our society. When the most wanted terrorist turns out to be nothing more than a government plumber (Robert DeNiro) who went rogue in order to actually fix people's plumbing problems without filling out dozens of forms and crossing insurmountable layers of bureacratic red tape, we see the only unforgivable crime in a fascist state is attempting to fix the system. And in this respect, Brazil is a timeless cautionary tale that still resonates as strongly today as ever.
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