Telegram Girl: [dancing wildly, while singing in an absurdly high soprano] A-a-a-a-a-a-A-a-a-a-a-a-a-A-a-a-a-a-a-a-A-A! Mrs Ida Lowry requests the pleasure of your COMPANYYYY! At her APARTMENT TONIIIIGHTT! For eight thirtee-EE-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-EE, to MIDNIGHTTT! To celebrate the completion of her recent cosmetic SURGERYYY! E-e-e-e-e-e-E-e-e-e-e-e-E! wwwWWAAAAAAIIIIIIIII!
[very long pause, Sam glances around nervously]
Sam Lowry: ummm... Thanks.
Telegram Girl: It's reply paid.
Sam Lowry: Is it?
[telegram girl nods]
Sam Lowry: oh... um... two, three,
Sam Lowry: [singing] Mother, I am sorry that I am unable to come to your parrrttty...
Telegram Girl: You DON'T have to sing it!
Sam Lowry: I don't?
^^this is from the movie Brazil by Terry Gilliam.
Some points I want to make about Brazil:
Number one: Brazil is a pretty good movie for a rainy Sunday afternoon. Get some ice cream, too.
Number two: This might seem like it has aged a little in the past 22 years. There’s a truck-driving girl with short spikey hair and coveralls(supposedly not gay), a guy flying around with a golden costume in a purple sky(supposedly not gay either), also there’s a lot(!) of artificial fog. I like the look of the computers and magnified screens though.
Number three: Use the following words to write a one-sentence-review about Brazil: [“dystopia”, “retro-future”, "duct", “bureaucrate”,"breakfast machine", “1984”/”orwellesque”, “allegory”, “cellophane”]
Number four: Apparently this is one of the movies teenage girls hate. They give it 4/10 stars. The imdb community is appalled.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0088846/board/nest/67420309?p=1
Number five: The allegory of a totalitarian dystopia works well in this, eventhough it is neither very new nor very subtle (originally Brazil was supposed to be called 1984 ½).
Number six: When I first watched this film I imagined how some stoner computer game programmer saw it and then invented Super Mario by copying the character of Harry Tuttle. That's probably not true but I like the idea so much that I won’t try to find out anytime soon.
Number seven: If you like Brazil, you might enjoy some of the earlier Jean-Pierre Jeunet films like Delicatessen and La Cité des Enfants Perdu.
Number eight: I dreamed a gang of girl ninjas flew through the window in my room after I watched this movie. Please don’t try to interpret this dream for me.
(I probably should also either say something meaningful about plastic surgery or make a witty reference to Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment and silly old people, but this is long enough already. And I hated 10th grade english.)
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Good luck to the frenchies for their elections today!
