Brazil story
The film centers on Sam Lowry, a man 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 machines.
12 total · 3 choice · 4 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| bureaucracy | choice | The film is set in a dystopian, hyper-bureaucratic future. |
| bureaucratic dystopia | choice | The film is set in a dystopian, hyper-bureaucratic future. |
| human vs. Kafkaesque institution | choice | Sam Lowry, a low-level government employee, was faced with having to navigating a complex government bureaucracy in order to first correct a false arrest, and the to find the girl of his dreams. |
| escape from reality | major | Sam frequently daydreamed of himself as a winged warrior saving a damsel in distress. |
| mass consumerism | major | Consumers for Christ |
| romantic love | major | Sam and Jill fell passionately in love. |
| terrorist or freedom fighter | major | The underground resistance movement was brand as a terrorist organization by the totalitarian state that it was fighting to undermine. |
| boss and employee | minor | Sam's boss at the Ministry of Information covered up his own ineptness by depending on Sam for everything. |
| coping with aging | minor | Sam's mother Ida went through a series of cosmetic surgeries in an effort to turn back the clock. |
| husband and wife | minor | Archibald and Veronica Buttle. |