Terry Gilliam’s Brazil

Terry Gilliam’s Brazil is a fascinating movie with an interesting view on future society. In this masterpiece, technology is omnipresent and daily life is severly monitored by machines. Like the paintings of Salvadore Dali, images in this movie are funny, disturbing, unexpected, and thought-provoking. To escape the “sur-real”, a young man – bored and bounded in his daily live – is trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams. In vain, as we can see in slot-scene of the movie. The bureaucratic forces are too strong for our young hero to overcome. Brazil’s view on the totalitarian control of the mind is close to George Orwell’s vision as described in his novel 1984. Interesting movie for those interesting in artificial intelligence.