Monday, November 17, 2008

brazil?

After watching Brazil, i felt as though i had been sucked into an acid addict's attic worst nightmare. The whole movie was just twisting my mind and contorting my inner thoughts. Ultimately i feel like there was defiantly some underlying themes, of which i did not understand. It defiantly depicts a totalitarian government that censors and abuses natural right of the people, hence why there are constant terrorist attacks. There is defiantly a "fight for what you believe in message", but i feel it is heavely watered down by a confusing plot and random inserts of useless information. I feel the approach to this movie almost hid the message and rendered it almost useless. Rather than a theme and massage people can easily walk away from, they are instead walking away confused and wondering if someone put acid in their cereal this morning. I'm defiantly not a huge fan of the post-modernistic style of writting and movies. It can defiantly work, I would defiantly say Flaubert's Parrot was succsessful in it's intent because i walked away form the book knowing more about the author and his sence of humor.

1 comment:

David Lavender said...

Did you find equal amounts of humor in both the book and the film?

(It's definitely--not defiantly--just an FYI)