Terry Gilliam once again seems to have spared no expense in making sure every visual element of the world adds up to a cohesive whole which makes you feel as if you're really experiencing the characters' surroundings. The line between his dreams and his reality blur ever further as he goes deeper and deeper into the government machine to find out who she is. As he attempts to correct an "oversight" by the Ministry Of Information for whom he works (one of the more obvious nods to Orwell) which has resulted in an innocent man's death, he finds a woman who appears to be the one in his dreams. When he sleeps, however, he flies through beautiful blue skies towards the woman of his dreams. Sam Lowry is a man who seems more than happy to live as a cog in the giant machine. The simplest exchange requires mountains of paperwork and a strict adherence to procedures has replaced anyone's ability to critically think about what they are doing or stand up to the brutality they know lurks around them. It posits a dark future world where the government has become a gigantic bureaucratic beast. This movie did not leave me with a happy feeling when I was done viewing it, but I definitely found it well worth the time.
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