The two share a romantic night together, but in the morning are apprehended by the government at gunpoint.
Sam falsifies government records to indicate her death, allowing her to escape pursuit. Jill finds Sam outside his apartment and the two take refuge in Ida's unoccupied home. Tuttle then appears in secret and helps Sam enact revenge on Spoor and Dowser by filling their hazmat suits with raw sewage. Sam returns home to find that the two Central Services workers have repossessed his apartment. He awakens briefly detained in police custody.Īt work, Sam is chastised by his new boss Mr Warrenn for his lack of productivity. They stop at a mall and are frightened by a terrorist bombing (part of a campaign that has been occurring around the city), then government agents arrive and take Sam. Sam clumsily confesses his love to Jill, and they cause mayhem as they escape government agents. After obtaining Jill's records, Sam tracks her down before she can be arrested. Sam retracts his refusal by speaking with Deputy Minister Mr Helpmann at a party hosted by Ida. He had previously turned down a promotion arranged by his high-ranking mother, Ida, who is obsessed with the rejuvenating plastic surgery of cosmetic surgeon Dr Jaffe. Sam discovers that Jill's records have been classified and the only way to access them is to be promoted to Information Retrieval. The workers later return to demolish Sam's ducts and seize his apartment under the pretence of fixing the system. Tuttle repairs Sam's air conditioning, but when two Central Services workers, Spoor and Dowser, arrive, Sam has to stall to let Tuttle escape. Central Services are uncooperative, but then Tuttle, who used to work for Central Services but left because of his dislike of the tedious and repetitive paperwork, unexpectedly comes to his assistance. Meanwhile, Sam reports a fault in his apartment's air conditioning. Unbeknownst to her, she is now considered a terrorist accomplice of Tuttle for attempting to report the wrongful arrest of Buttle. Jill has been trying to help Mrs Buttle establish what happened to her husband, but her efforts have been obstructed by bureaucracy. Sam frantically tries to approach Jill, but she disappears before he can find her. He visits Buttle's widow to give her the refund where he catches a glimpse of her upstairs neighbour Jill Layton, a truck driver, and is astonished to discover that Jill resembles the woman from his dreams. Sam discovers the mistake when he discovers the wrong bank account had been debited for the arrest. This leads to the arrest and death during interrogation of cobbler Archibald Buttle instead of renegade heating engineer and suspected terrorist Archibald Tuttle. One day, shortly before Christmas, a fly becomes jammed in a teleprinter, which misprints a copy of an arrest warrant it was receiving. In a dystopian, polluted, hyper- consumerist, overbearing bureaucratic totalitarian future somewhere in the 20th century, Sam Lowry is a low-level government employee who frequently dreams of himself as a winged warrior saving a damsel in distress.
In 2017, a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers, and critics for Time Out magazine saw it ranked the 24th best British film ever. In 1999, the British Film Institute voted Brazil the 54th greatest British film of all time. Though a success in Europe, the film was unsuccessful in its initial North American release. Despite its title, the film is not about the country Brazil nor does it take place there it is named after the recurrent theme song, Ary Barroso's " Aquarela do Brasil", known simply as "Brazil" to British audiences, as performed by Geoff Muldaur.
Jack Mathews, a film critic and the author of The Battle of Brazil (1987), described the film as "satirizing the bureaucratic, largely dysfunctional industrial world that had been driving Gilliam crazy all his life".
Sarah Street's British National Cinema (1997) describes the film as a "fantasy/satire on bureaucratic society", and John Scalzi's Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies (2005) describes it as a "dystopian satire". Brazil 's satire of technocracy, bureaucracy, hyper-surveillance, corporatism and state capitalism is reminiscent of George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and has been called Kafkaesque and absurdist. The film centres on Sam Lowry, a low-ranking bureaucrat trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. The film stars Jonathan Pryce and features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm. Brazil is a 1985 dystopian black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard.
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