brazil

This movie, although I only saw the beginning, was pretty interesting. I liked the new "inventions" we saw such as the one-personm car and the plastic surgery technique. these made us think the movie was set in the future, but weren't the movies the workers watching black and white? maybe the controlling government destroyed all the new films, or since this was made in the 80's the couldn't forsee the changes in motion pictures, even though they were pretty developed. I could see the post-modernist ties from the beginning. His dream seems to be his individual "truth" and by his mother trying to control his life she pushes him further away. I don't know what happens in the end, but I'm guessing its like any other part in the movie: open and confusing. Its hard to understand a movie when you don't know everything, but it makes it more interactive because you are left to come up with your own decision or view of the the events. If a movie tells you everything, it can be boring forgetable, but when it lets you think and find your own meaning, an important post-modernist theme, it engages you and I think is a better movie. Also, I like the theme song.