Monday 29 August 2011

Brazil Together

We all sat down and watched Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" the other night.  I still think this is a bravura, tour-de-force piece of film-making, taking all sorts of risks and mostly getting away with them.  A mordantly dark, comic dystopia.

We noticed in passing that the posters the masters and rulers of the dystopian society in the film (managing lives, loves, and - most emphatically - information) had plastered over the walls of the poor and disenfranchised read:

WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER

Does that sound familiar?

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