Sunday, November 16, 2008

Brazil and Post modernism

The movie Brazil was a interesting and insightful look into the harmoniously random and sublimely odd. While at a first hurried glance the movie may look like a badly stitched patchwork quilt the reality is quite different. Just like Flaubert's Parrot the jumpy sequence is full of meaning. Each transition is intentional and each coincidence real. The beauty of Post Modernism is that a work does not have to make sence or righ true to everyone, but to those that enjoy it the reward is greater. Brazil represents it, having thrilled some critics and been despised by others. It is a simple proble of how far you are willing to let reality stretch. the further, the better. Post modernism lets you, the reader or viewer, choose how compare the mediums reality with your own.

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