Terrorists
Bureaucracy
Many people working
Huge city
New technology
New cultural Norms (kids with guns, plastic surgery, more sexual and there's more cursing etc.)
Old:
40s posters (such as mind that poster)
Regular shopping malls with old clothes.
Everybody speaks in British English
Getting set up by your parents
Christmas presents were a big deal
Typewriters and old elevators that still break
The music
Above is a list of the Modern and Old traits that I took notes on while watching Brazil. This film takes place "sometime in the 20th Cent" but it is ambiguous as to whether it was futuristic or past. I think making the world of Brazil a complete fantasy in time gives the director more creative freedom and flexibility in conveying his message. He wants to criticize and satirize a beaurocratic society and the possibilities for this were greater with no contexual time constraints. The confusing mise-en-scene also submerges the viewer into a state of confusion that establishes the director's themes of being out of control or lost.
Like the lists. A good way to start thinking about the question.
ReplyDeleteSo, are you saying the film is better classified as a FANTASY rather than SCI FI? Do you see the film as an allegory?
Say more about how the mise en scene was confusing? Why does he want to confuse us with phones that seem older rather than newer?