the break down on Brazil

At first  really didn't understand the movie and I found little interest in the plot. It confused me because I didn't know when the movie was produced and all of relations to time did not make since to me. Then over the weekend we had to read "Kitsch and Postmodernism in Brazil" by Kieth James Hamel. I have to say that I enjoyed this a whole lot more than watching the movie. This actually gave me the answers to why the movie was so odd. I began to understand the movie a little bit more and the plot and characters grew on me a little bit more after I gave it a chance. when I first watched the movie I was confused about the odd dreams that kept on occurring. In the midst of the average all day workers and huge boring cit he has these intricate dreams of him flying and attempting to save a women. Is this just his escapism from the ever day hell that he has to deal with. I also noticed that His dreams were from a different time period. He was fighting monsters with a sword in stead of the modern day weapons. This tied in with the odd assortment of gadgets in the movie that were from different time periods. For example, It seems that the director of the movie was attempting to make a "future like scene" in the whole movie. Although a lot of the gadgets are from the future like computers and such, their are some from the past  like the old typewriters. The middle of the film was good but then when we were edging to the end I was simple tired of a everything about the movie. Too much weird stuff was going on and it became hard to follow.