+smnoy23 I always interpreted it like that as well. He knew the truth therefore he will be free. Like the statue said in the beginning where you first meet Jack.
I love how the song goes from a sweet melody to a bathhouse of insanity. Not because Sam goes insane, but because the film simply feels like I went through the insane version of a roller coaster of emotions. I have absolutely no idea how to feel about this movie except this ending.
I think it's more a comparison of what we can perceive of his peacefully humming catatonia from the outside, and then we can hear the wild music as it's now playing inside his head for real.
This is one of those endings that you remember and go "Jesus Christ, what an ending. What a fucking film". The same thing happened to me with the "tears in rain" scene from Blade Runner.
Watched this for the first time just over a month ago and the more I think about it, the more it rises through the ranks in my head for top best movies. This ending is one of the darkest I have seen on a movie and I feel it will haunt me forever. Well done to the Terry Gilliam.
Mamamew TheRani this is one of the rare movie that manage to make you laugh and feel sad at the same time, to make you think about deep and complex subject of humanity, but stays on pace and entertaining. Its also a movie that manages to be serious and silly and the same time. This is a gem in the multitude of unimportant and unoriginal movies out there.
There's also an alternate ending called "Love Conquers All". So this must be an implication that Sam already escaped that totalitarian city while he's insane in reality. Or maybe THIS original ending never happened and the alternate ending is the "real" ending. Just saying.
I watched this about a week ago and was blown away. I was sad with the ending but I wouldn't change a thing. It showed how bleak this world was and Sam used escapism throughout the movie in a way because in his dreams he rather view himself as this hero. When they tortured and broke him he retreated to the fantasy of his love and finally being at peace. Part of me really wished it happened. When Tuttle came to save him I legit thought that it was all gonna work out. The society they live in is truly scary and an innocent man, Buttle, died over a stupid error and they simply didn't care. I would hate to live in a society like this.
I remember a slightly different version of the credits, where they do a slow dissolve of the background into the clouds, while keeping the chair and ground the same.
I'll never forget the ending of Brazil. You know how they are famous last words of film and pop culture like Tears in the Rain from Blade Runner, the song that Sam sings could've been at its hall of fame but it's not death but this is his way of saying goodbye to his horrible real world that has pain, suffering, and hell, and possibly the waving bon voyage to the whole entire audience which is us
There's something about this credit roll that unsettles me, that being the screen doesn't fade to black when they roll. We just see Sam, alone in his world
Brazil is a crazily creative film that flies over the head of a lot of people. It's about today's society, the way we are sucked into the propaganda and lose sight of what we really are and become sheeplike in our everyday lives. The very finest part of this thinking person's movie is it's unexpected, poignant ending. It's up to the viewer to decide for themselves if it's a positive ending, or a horribly sad one. The fact that it really is both, that there is happiness within us, no matter what we lose- that hope and love spring eternal in human beings despite our governments falling into dictatorship and madness, gives the film a tremendously memorable ending with emotional depth that sticks with you, and makes you think about the film long after the song fades away. One of my very favorite movies.
Escaping reality into the sanctuary of your mind. Yes this is sort of the society we live today. More people escape via antidepressants and recreational drugs. Maybe our elderly who suffer from dementia then die may be leaving this world relatively painlessly (sadly). I saw this movie when it was made and have seen it many times since....this version of the song being the best. Cheers!
This film made me think about how lost I feel in this complex world. Everytime I hear Brazil (the song) I am reminded of Sam’s blank gaze and just how empty life can be sometimes
I feel that the ending fits the rest of the movie, as it's showing how such a society functions. How if you don't conform in this future society, they'll make you conform or kill you,etc. If it ended with him driving off with Jill in to the sunset or anything else it just wouldn't make sense based on the theme of the movie.
@@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக் hahahaha legitimately a good question, I wrote that comment 6 years ago. I'd forgotten having written it. I probably thought this was deep at the time lol but to explain what I most likely meant. Brazil is based heavily on George Orwell's book 1984 it's like the fever dream deluxe version. By "future" society I was referring to the Orwellian society in 1984 and the society the Sam Lowry inhabits in Brazil. Thanks for commenting it was cool to revisit these memories.
Honestly I think the switch from Sam singing Brazil to the upbeat bombastic version of Brazil is to just show the contrast between the world Sam has constructed himself, to the larger scale overall bliss of the society in Brazil. Their hyper consumerist society has no time to waste it worrying over bombings, potential wrong convictions, a bloated bureaucracy. To them to worry is to waste and to party is to live
I remember finding this film so prophetic in '85, when I first saw it, it scared me. Now look at us. Bombings at the most routine gatherings (Boston Marathon vs restaurant bombing in the film), more paperwork than ever in a supposedly evolving paperless world (been to a hospital lately?), higher and higher rents for smaller and smaller living spaces, etc., etc., etc. All I can do is think "Brave New World" (that has such wonders in it?) is next and envy Sam.
The more I hear this song, I realize that it could be interpreted as someone who is at the end of his life and has made peace with his life, may it be a good fulfilling life or a life with regrets, but at the end, all we have is our memories, at the end we can choose to remember the good and let go of the bad. “The morning found me miles away, with still a million things to say” To me that means that there are so many things left unsaid as we wither away. “Now, as twilight dims the sky above” Could mean that death is near. “Recalling thrills of our love. There's one thing I'm certain of Return I will to old Brazil” That could mean that as we let go, we will find the calmness of our beloved memories (i.e. spouse, children, etc)
With the dystopian baseline story of George Orwell's 1984 the addition of these incredibly Gilliam filmed flights of fantasy makes this one the greatest comedy fantasies of all time
If anyone ever wonders why the villain in Sams dreams was a samurai when nothing in the movie mentioned Japanese culture it is actually quite obvious. It is literally saying SAM ARE I, as revealed when Sam demasks the villain which turns out to be himself. Much like when Luke sky walker fights darth Vader in episode 6, demasks him, and discovers that it was himself. LITERALLY EVERYTHING IN THIS MOVIE HAS A MEANING
I loved this film seeing it so many times. The title song has been played by me hundreds of times. It is a song tha tone can not forget. Thank you for posting this for us all who loved both the film and this song.
Its a common theme in dystopian movies like this. Now that I think about, two movies that I think I can now compare Brazil too would be V for Vendetta, and Fight Club. One thing I'd like to note is that there is enough evidence in Brazil to suggest that the 'bombings' are actually mishaps in a poorly-run and maintained system, which the government pins the blame on anarchists
The greatest visual director ever is Terry Gilliam. When Steven Spielberg first seen Brazil he called Gilliam a genius. Robert De Niro, the finest actor of his generation wanted to work with Terry Gilliam he took a small part and a small fee, when he was a box office star and could almost name his own price. From Gilliam's animations for Monty Python's Flying Circus, through to his art direction on Life Of Brian and Directing Brazil, he has always had a brilliant imagination. His film's are incredibly visual. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (co-directed with Terry Jones), Jabberwocky, Life Of Brian (art director), Meaning of Life ( the short at the beginning, the Crimson Pirates), Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys, Brothers Grimm, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Zero Theroem, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Everything Terry has done has been so amazing to watch. 3 of my favourite films, Life Of Brian, Brazil and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas are made by Terry Gilliam. He's without doubt my favourite director. Although I like Tim Burton, I believe Alice in wonderland was made for Terry Gilliam to direct. The visuals that film needs is right up Gilliam's street. I would have loved to have seen what Terry would have done with Alice in Wonderland. A genius.
When I saw this film in theater , I had no idea if I went through an hour and a half of insanity or if I saw a 3 hour long nightmare. This ending was the reason of this question
Me sigue impactando la escena final , como cuando la ví por primera vez hace ya muchos años. Nunca podré eliminar esta sensación catártica , más aún que ahora me veo reflejado en ese tremendo escape , buscando la felicidad que no encuentro posible dentro de esta realidad absurda. Siempre supe que terminaría así.
The interesting thing is that we really have no clue as to whether Jill was in love with Sam. The 'real' Jill and the dream 'Jill' get conflated so much throughout this movie...after all, was it the real Jill that push Sam out of that truck and left him high and dry? Possibly she may have grown sympathetic towards him later on, but we never really see their relationship develop much outside of the 'ideal' in Sam's head...of course its a very dark message in that the 'real' world very rarely accommodates dreams, unless they are dreams of power which involve smashing other peoples dreams, mostly through ignorance and blind reasoning rather than real malice, which is kind of the scary part! I can never decide if this movie is over rated by film buffs or not...a lot of the concepts on display here are almost totally taken 1984, and not just 1984 the book but also I can see a lot of elements from the iconic BBC 50's adaptation with Peter Cushing as well (which I'm sure Gilliam must have seen) with a few elements of Brave New world thrown in...also even Sam as a character feels like something of a cipher for concepts to me rather than a person...although I know the foundation of satire is caricature...but its never felt enough for me in terms of a main character for a whole movie. It does feel to me like we have seen this before...and done better...but that being said I know this film was butchered, and I think thats why a lot of film buffs give it a lot more kudos than perhaps it deserves because of its troubled distribution history and art vs commerce rather than for its actual story elements, and I must confess I don't think I have seen all the versions... also it can't be denied that Gilliam is an amazing visual stylist who creates a brilliantly realized worlds...and I do like the comic touches in Brazil...also the ending is perhaps the most truely brilliant thing about this film...the only escape is to go mad...but its still an escape...
There are three versions (European version, which is my favorite, the recent "Director's Cut" which damages some of the timing at the start of the scene where they're arresting Jill, and the god-awful "Love conquers all" version made by Universal), and the "butchered" one never saw the light of day until years later on syndicated TV. If you're not watching the rare and abysmal "Love conquers all" cut where Sam truly escapes with Jill to the countryside and proudly tells her, "I don't dream anymore!", you're seeing Terry's pure, unadulterated vision where he's going insane at the end. And it's Terry's untampered vision that makes this film pretty much the "Citizen Kane" of the second half of the century in cinematography, lighting, and production design alone. While the film takes some of its more obvious cues from Orwell, the world in the film is much closer to the kind of dystopia foretold in Horkheimer and Adorno's "Dialectic of Enlightenment" and Marcuse's "One-dimensional man". For one, "1984" pretty much tells us a primitive conspiracy theory of an evil leader or a tiny evil elite consciously manipulating the general populace, whereas there's no actual figurehead in "Brazil" and nobody's evil, the torturers are only uncaringly doing their jobs without any passion or emotion and nobody knows what's really going on or even cares, no matter where they sit on the social ladder. Adorno and Marcuse agreed that the nigtmarish and absurd works of Kafka were a perfect way to describe what's wrong with the modern world, and "Brazil" has tons of kafkaesque absurdity. An important concept in those two books is that of "false needs" instilled in you by the culture aka entertainment industry so you will be complicit and docile and not do anything against the system. Both books gained their insights particularly from the pinnacle of all that's wrong about the Western world in the form of Nazi Germany, and all three writers agreed that Soviet Communism was nothing but another form of Capitalism in disguise. "Brazil" looks like a lot of the 20th century compressed into a single moment (you can read why in Keith James Hamel's review of Terry's films where he refers a lot to Max Weber, who in turn was an important influence upon the two mentioned books), but most of all resembles the Age of Totalitarianism in wardrobes and architecture, an age which brought forth Nazism and Stalinism. It's no coincidence that Sam drives a German Nazi-era Messerschmitt car, nor that people at the mall carry a "Consumers for Christ" sign while a child blurts out the very first thing they want from Santa is their "first credit card", or that it's always Consumerist Christmas Heaven in "Brazil". Many people today confuse "Brazil" for a look at the Soviet system, but in the second draft of the script Terry and his co-writer Alverson emphasize that "Brazil" takes a lot from both the West Bloc and the East Bloc (""It is neither future nor past, and yet a bit of each. It is neither East nor West, but could be Belgrade or Scunthorpe on a drizzly day in February. Or Cicero, Illinois, seen through the bottom of a beer bottle.") because at the end of the day, there's little difference between them, really.
Its like David Lynch is reading 1984 aloud to you while you trip on acid and taking liberties with the telling. 😂JULIA!! Do it to Julia!! And Space Odyssey is on the telly 😂
How is this movie wholesome but nihilistic. Stupid but Intelligent. Funny yet heartbreaking. The only thing I know for Certain is that no movie before or after can reach the levels of how much of a absurd masterpiece Brazil is. Ever since I watched it I can’t stop thinking about it. This movie’s ending has the main character singing the main theme and somehow it is the bleakest thing I’ve ever seen in a movie.
I think out of the three, the most 'realistic' and probable scenario is Fight Club's, while the most metaphorical and allegorical is Brazil's. One thing about that observation I mentioned largely depends on who Harry Tuttle really is. One interpretation of the movie has it that Harry never existed, and Sam only hallucinates him, as he did in the finale sequence.
Curious, does the original Ary Barroso of the song appear anywhere in the film? Or only the recordings of others? I wonder why they chose to have English words rather than Portugese here in this ending?
i kind of like the blue sky and clouds of the american version, even though everything else about this version is superior. But the movie is increasingly more and more inside his head, so why not have the ending be so too? instead, in the version, you're suddenly turned into an observer.
I remember seeing Jonathan Pryce on the street in soho. I so wanted to tell him how much this movie touched me and especially how much his rendition of this song (that he sang I believe) moved me to tears. Alas, I never did.
BTW: This movie has two different endings! 1 - the "normal" version for the European's and most the world. And 2 - "friendly ending" for the US ones ...... Terry Gillian didn't liked version 2!
That's an interesting observation you have on the bombings which I'd never considered. I also now see why you compare it with V for Vendetta and Fight Club.
I dunno if this was on purpose, but yknow how this is based off 1984. this film is a parody of it and was released in 1985, like it was mockkng the name of it. Probably not, someone must have noticed it, strange coincidence though...
I feel like I was one of the few people to whom Brazil made perfect sense. It's surprising to me because that never happens. I didn't understand American Psycho, Fight Club, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Donnie Darko, or any movies I think are kind of similar to this one at all.
Does anyone NOT feel that this movie is as if made by an 'Escapee' from a Scenario like "12 Monkeys''; sent 'back' to make this film as a warning of what is to come, and to try and stop it; but we are too lost into and hooked into the System, Globally to care or realize it...That, as of this Summer of 2020 is just were it is all going....Sadly, all an Lol...
idk about those other stupid movies your talking about... but people watch Brazil to remind themselves what has happened in Stalinist Russia and what is still going on today in North Korea.. thank you George Orwell!!! (bladerunner is just a classic scifi novel made into a good movie)
I was 7 old when Brazil was released. All the children of my generation were growing in a wold cut in two enemy camps, a world of fear and madness. That's why Brazil, Alien and Blade Runner tell us more than the generation which grew after the SSRU downfall. These films have captured and retransmitted the disillusioned atmosphere of the last years of Cold War.
The movie has nothing to do with Brazil except this song. I think its a reference to the randomness of the subconscious. Sam is tortured into madness AND/OR escapes into his dreams and is set free (until they kill him but that does not matter either because he is already gone mentally). Figuring out the boundary between his reality and his dreams is the hard part isn't it! I always describe this film as "The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty crossed with 1984"
*SPOILERS* The song of Brazil is the symbol of happiness in the movie. Which is what the whole movie is about. The world Sam lives in is trite when it comes to happiness so when faced with the the last thing Sam could've ever wanted (love interest dead, being tortured by good friend) he escaped to happiness (Brazil.) I think the song choice is a bit random (Terry Gilliam could've used a lot of different songs) but the lyrics actually kind of go along with the movie. I suggest reading the lyrics but essentially they're saying that the person singing the song was in Brazil (Happiness) with his lover and then left Brazil and lost his lover so he's going to return to Brazil to see her. Which is why the ending is litterally Sam's ending in the real world too. When he speaks the lyrics: "Return, I will, to O, ...Brazil..." Brazil is his last word because it's essentially his goodbye to the real world and hello to Brazil (Happiness.) Sorry for being convoluded, I'm a big nerd for this movie.
I may be in the minority for this, but I actually prefer 12 monkeys. Not to say this movie isn't any good, but having just seen both of these movies back to back it's a bit annoying for me to see Brazil be such a half assed attempt at recreating the magic that is the Owelian novel, 1984. Terry admits he hasn't even read the book, so it's sad to see the main story itself being the weakest aspect in this movie. Sam himself is interesting but I'm annoyed by how little chemistry he and Jill had. I get that for the overall narrative, Jill is the alter ego of Sam since he had to internally defeat his loyalty to the ministry to completely win her over. However, in the reality timeline of the movie, Jill barely has any time to have any romantic feelings towards Sam. In fact, I would argue that her falling in love with him is inconsitent with her charcter since she is a skeptical, secretive and caring person. She isn't the damsel in distress Sam wants her to be: it's shown in the film she can handle herself. I don't think the movie is total crap however: the set pieces, atmosphere, acting, mockery of the bueraucratic system, the hyper exaggerated customs we partake in (like cosmetic surgery) and it's ironic sense of humor resents with my preferences in movies. I just tend to compare Sam and Jill to James and Kathryn's romance and I can't help but wonder how much better the movie could of been had Terry not cut Jill's scenes as much as he choose to.
Ok, I'll admit, it's an ok ending, because we all have our Brazil, and my Brazil is fan fiction, and if I ever feel down, I will go into my Brazil, it's kind of weird that this song is not used for this years World Cup, well maybe because nobody knows what the hell this movie's is about, even Brazilians. So yeah, John Germoxican admits that this is an ok ending, Happy? But someone better give a good answer, is Sam going to die, or is he already dead? Cause I feel he did in the aftermath, because, don't they kill people anyway? Or did Tuttle Save him in the aftermath as well, because the whole escape was Sam's dream, and that means Tuttle is alive. But I'm not Terry Gilliam, so I don't know.
This ending is precisely why the film is so great. Gilliam set out to create a film where the "happy" ending was the character going insane. What happens to Sam now is sort of irrelevant - they can no longer touch him. He finally escaped. This isn't an "okay" ending, it's not even just a great ending, it's the only ending that works for this film. It's the necessary and right ending. Compare to the ridiculously sappy, implausible and tonally incongruent "Love Conquers All" ending that the studio wanted and you'll see what I mean.
I believe it can be assumed that Sam has already been tortured and is bleeding out in the torture chair here. In the last 15 minutes, Sam starts dreaming right when the doctor is shot in the head.
because of this ending, I can't call brazil a great movie, I give it a 75 percent and to be honest, Gilliam should've made a happy ending, he calls this a happy ending how? The hero suffers, and that's not good. There are films with dark endings I love, some of them horror movies, but this is not one of them. Gilliam, you are a jerk, and you dissing Spielberg, you went to far...., you haven't made anything great in awhile, until then, you are put on my top ten directors who I can't trust, but like you movies list.
Well, if you knew the story that the movie was based off of, you would be able to see that it is a "happy ending". The movie was Gilliam's attempt to make a movie from the book 1984 by George Orwell, without actually reading the book. He had heard the story told from other people, and used that to create the movie. In the book, the ending is pretty much the same as in 1984, but the overall plots are somewhat different, along with the worlds that the main characters live. In the movie, Sam goes insane in order to escape the harsh reality, implying that the idea of Brazil is that happiness is only an illusion. In the novel 1984, the main character, Winston, is tortured into loving his "perfect" society, and ends up pretty much in the same state as Sam, going insane, but for the love of his society. The book is a criticism of Communist society, in which everyone is one body, but at the same time, it creates outcasts, like the main character. In the society, if anyone believes that there is a flaw in the society, they are tortured or killed, and have their records are erased, in order to prevent the public from seeing a flaw with the system (relating to the idea of "Buttle" being killed, and the evidence being concealed). If you read the book, and then watch the film, you can see quite a bit of errors in the story and the message, but overall, they fit together pretty well... So, before you criticize the movie, you should read the story it's based off of, in order to get an idea of why it ended as it did.
that ending is one of my favs ever! he is becomes crazy and returns to his ''brazil'' in his fantasy, if thats not a happy end idk what is, it basically means you can take and destroy everything but not someones fantasy and imagination!
Brazil was based on 1984, if you have read that book (highly recommended), you would understand that this is the only way this film could have possibly ended.
I think this is a "happy" ending because, even though he never physically escaped, he's gone to a place where they can't hurt him anymore.
Someone once said, "this is the only movie where the happy ending is a man going insane."
I think it's one of the most triumphant endings to a movie.
+smnoy23 I always interpreted it like that as well. He knew the truth therefore he will be free. Like the statue said in the beginning where you first meet Jack.
+Catzilla the island?
Right...Terry Gilliam say that in a Interview (Almost these same words).
I love how the song goes from a sweet melody to a bathhouse of insanity. Not because Sam goes insane, but because the film simply feels like I went through the insane version of a roller coaster of emotions. I have absolutely no idea how to feel about this movie except this ending.
I think it's more a comparison of what we can perceive of his peacefully humming catatonia from the outside, and then we can hear the wild music as it's now playing inside his head for real.
this is such a depressing yet satisfying ending, simply because of this music
1:11 makes me sob
@@michaelbutler7076após 1.11 termina em Samba um ode a vida tss
It doesn't matter if we know he didn't escape, as long as Sam believes he is in a better place.
so touching, so intellectual, so political, so insightful, so everything...
Agreed, awesome film and one of the best endings!!!
The ending made me so sad. But I love the song especially the original Portuguese version.
Sam Lowry's only crime was falling in love with a girl who didnt commit any crime either, a truly touching and thought provoque film
This version. At my funeral.
this ending hurts
This is one of those endings that you remember and go "Jesus Christ, what an ending. What a fucking film".
The same thing happened to me with the "tears in rain" scene from Blade Runner.
Goddam. What connects us? Blade runner, 1984, Fahrenheit 451? What else ? What are we.
Watched this for the first time just over a month ago and the more I think about it, the more it rises through the ranks in my head for top best movies. This ending is one of the darkest I have seen on a movie and I feel it will haunt me forever. Well done to the Terry Gilliam.
Mamamew TheRani this is one of the rare movie that manage to make you laugh and feel sad at the same time, to make you think about deep and complex subject of humanity, but stays on pace and entertaining. Its also a movie that manages to be serious and silly and the same time. This is a gem in the multitude of unimportant and unoriginal movies out there.
There's also an alternate ending called "Love Conquers All". So this must be an implication that Sam already escaped that totalitarian city while he's insane in reality. Or maybe THIS original ending never happened and the alternate ending is the "real" ending. Just saying.
One of my favourite endings
I watched this about a week ago and was blown away. I was sad with the ending but I wouldn't change a thing. It showed how bleak this world was and Sam used escapism throughout the movie in a way because in his dreams he rather view himself as this hero. When they tortured and broke him he retreated to the fantasy of his love and finally being at peace. Part of me really wished it happened. When Tuttle came to save him I legit thought that it was all gonna work out. The society they live in is truly scary and an innocent man, Buttle, died over a stupid error and they simply didn't care. I would hate to live in a society like this.
I remember a slightly different version of the credits, where they do a slow dissolve of the background into the clouds, while keeping the chair and ground the same.
There are three different edits, as I recall. The one you remember is the most bittersweet.
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La película me parece grandiosa pero sus últimos 30 minutos están a otro nivel, gran final, pocas veces una película me ha hecho llorar
Un film spectaculaire, formidable Terry Gilliam et quelle musique de fin !
1985
The ending made me feel sad and happy at the same time.
I'll never forget the ending of Brazil. You know how they are famous last words of film and pop culture like Tears in the Rain from Blade Runner, the song that Sam sings could've been at its hall of fame but it's not death but this is his way of saying goodbye to his horrible real world that has pain, suffering, and hell, and possibly the waving bon voyage to the whole entire audience which is us
one of the most fascinating songs ever written used brilliantly in one of the best movies ever made ! sad for our future ! join the fight !
There's something about this credit roll that unsettles me, that being the screen doesn't fade to black when they roll. We just see Sam, alone in his world
Brazil is a crazily creative film that flies over the head of a lot of people. It's about today's society, the way we are sucked into the propaganda and lose sight of what we really are and become sheeplike in our everyday lives. The very finest part of this thinking person's movie is it's unexpected, poignant ending. It's up to the viewer to decide for themselves if it's a positive ending, or a horribly sad one. The fact that it really is both, that there is happiness within us, no matter what we lose- that hope and love spring eternal in human beings despite our governments falling into dictatorship and madness, gives the film a tremendously memorable ending with emotional depth that sticks with you, and makes you think about the film long after the song fades away. One of my very favorite movies.
Escaping reality into the sanctuary of your mind. Yes this is sort of the society we live today. More people escape via antidepressants and recreational drugs. Maybe our elderly who suffer from dementia then die may be leaving this world relatively painlessly (sadly). I saw this movie when it was made and have seen it many times since....this version of the song being the best. Cheers!
This film made me think about how lost I feel in this complex world. Everytime I hear Brazil (the song) I am reminded of Sam’s blank gaze and just how empty life can be sometimes
A lot of truth to what this guy is saying, it brought tears to me.
Truly awesome movie a masterpiece
I feel that the ending fits the rest of the movie, as it's showing how such a society functions. How if you don't conform in this future society, they'll make you conform or kill you,etc. If it ended with him driving off with Jill in to the sunset or anything else it just wouldn't make sense based on the theme of the movie.
Hehe what do you mean by "Future" society?
விஷ்ணு கார்த்திக் He mean Retro future society
@@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக் hahahaha legitimately a good question, I wrote that comment 6 years ago. I'd forgotten having written it. I probably thought this was deep at the time lol but to explain what I most likely meant. Brazil is based heavily on George Orwell's book 1984 it's like the fever dream deluxe version. By "future" society I was referring to the Orwellian society in 1984 and the society the Sam Lowry inhabits in Brazil. Thanks for commenting it was cool to revisit these memories.
Honestly I think the switch from Sam singing Brazil to the upbeat bombastic version of Brazil is to just show the contrast between the world Sam has constructed himself, to the larger scale overall bliss of the society in Brazil. Their hyper consumerist society has no time to waste it worrying over bombings, potential wrong convictions, a bloated bureaucracy. To them to worry is to waste and to party is to live
I remember finding this film so prophetic in '85, when I first saw it, it scared me. Now look at us. Bombings at the most routine gatherings (Boston Marathon vs restaurant bombing in the film), more paperwork than ever in a supposedly evolving paperless world (been to a hospital lately?), higher and higher rents for smaller and smaller living spaces, etc., etc., etc. All I can do is think "Brave New World" (that has such wonders in it?) is next and envy Sam.
@Michael Butler I'm 12 and loved this film, quarantines weird...
@Michael Butler different accounts
One of the best South South American songs ever written.
id say one of the best in the world
There's one thing I'm certain of... return... i will... to old... Brazil...
Hauntingly beautiful
The more I hear this song, I realize that it could be interpreted as someone who is at the end of his life and has made peace with his life, may it be a good fulfilling life or a life with regrets, but at the end, all we have is our memories, at the end we can choose to remember the good and let go of the bad. “The morning found me miles away, with still a million things to say” To me that means that there are so many things left unsaid as we wither away. “Now, as twilight dims the sky above” Could mean that death is near. “Recalling thrills of our love. There's one thing I'm certain of Return I will to old Brazil” That could mean that as we let go, we will find the calmness of our beloved memories (i.e. spouse, children, etc)
With the dystopian baseline story of George Orwell's 1984 the addition of these incredibly Gilliam filmed flights of fantasy makes this one the greatest comedy fantasies of all time
If anyone ever wonders why the villain in Sams dreams was a samurai when nothing in the movie mentioned Japanese culture it is actually quite obvious. It is literally saying SAM ARE I, as revealed when Sam demasks the villain which turns out to be himself. Much like when Luke sky walker fights darth Vader in episode 6, demasks him, and discovers that it was himself. LITERALLY EVERYTHING IN THIS MOVIE HAS A MEANING
Michael Myers You re so wrong
Sherlock
@rana negromante The cave on Dagobah
I loved this film seeing it so many times. The title song has been played by me hundreds of times. It is a song tha tone can not forget. Thank you for posting this for us all who loved both the film and this song.
Perfect ending to a classic movie.
Its a common theme in dystopian movies like this. Now that I think about, two movies that I think I can now compare Brazil too would be V for Vendetta, and Fight Club.
One thing I'd like to note is that there is enough evidence in Brazil to suggest that the 'bombings' are actually mishaps in a poorly-run and maintained system, which the government pins the blame on anarchists
The greatest visual director ever is Terry Gilliam. When Steven Spielberg first seen Brazil he called Gilliam a genius. Robert De Niro, the finest actor of his generation wanted to work with Terry Gilliam he took a small part and a small fee, when he was a box office star and could almost name his own price. From Gilliam's animations for Monty Python's Flying Circus, through to his art direction on Life Of Brian and Directing Brazil, he has always had a brilliant imagination. His film's are incredibly visual. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (co-directed with Terry Jones), Jabberwocky, Life Of Brian (art director), Meaning of Life ( the short at the beginning, the Crimson Pirates), Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys, Brothers Grimm, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Zero Theroem, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Everything Terry has done has been so amazing to watch. 3 of my favourite films, Life Of Brian, Brazil and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas are made by Terry Gilliam. He's without doubt my favourite director. Although I like Tim Burton, I believe Alice in wonderland was made for Terry Gilliam to direct. The visuals that film needs is right up Gilliam's street. I would have loved to have seen what Terry would have done with Alice in Wonderland. A genius.
bad things happen to good people.
He wasn't exactly a good person tho,
@Michael Butler He was selfish, he only cared about himself, his only motivation in this story was his infatuation with a random woman.
@@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக் and being love and in your interest is bad because?
@@bubblegumgun3292 Infatuation is not love and selfishness is not a very likable trait.
An horrible and beautiful ending. I love it.
When I saw this film in theater , I had no idea if I went through an hour and a half of insanity or if I saw a 3 hour long nightmare. This ending was the reason of this question
Part of me is happy because they cant hurt him anymore. But he has gone insane so that makes me sad.
The best dystopian sci-fi of all time.
Ce film est génial
Thanx for posting this! It just popped into my head, now I need to track the film down...
Me sigue impactando la escena final , como cuando la ví por primera vez hace ya muchos años.
Nunca podré eliminar esta sensación catártica , más aún que ahora me veo reflejado en ese tremendo escape , buscando la felicidad que no encuentro posible dentro de esta realidad absurda.
Siempre supe que terminaría así.
No escapes de la realidad, es el único lugar en el que existes, no existe vida normal sin sufrimiento
Did they ever release a soundtrack with Pryce's hauntingly murmured intro of the lyrics?
lovely movie
The interesting thing is that we really have no clue as to whether Jill was in love with Sam. The 'real' Jill and the dream 'Jill' get conflated so much throughout this movie...after all, was it the real Jill that push Sam out of that truck and left him high and dry? Possibly she may have grown sympathetic towards him later on, but we never really see their relationship develop much outside of the 'ideal' in Sam's head...of course its a very dark message in that the 'real' world very rarely accommodates dreams, unless they are dreams of power which involve smashing other peoples dreams, mostly through ignorance and blind reasoning rather than real malice, which is kind of the scary part!
I can never decide if this movie is over rated by film buffs or not...a lot of the concepts on display here are almost totally taken 1984, and not just 1984 the book but also I can see a lot of elements from the iconic BBC 50's adaptation with Peter Cushing as well (which I'm sure Gilliam must have seen) with a few elements of Brave New world thrown in...also even Sam as a character feels like something of a cipher for concepts to me rather than a person...although I know the foundation of satire is caricature...but its never felt enough for me in terms of a main character for a whole movie. It does feel to me like we have seen this before...and done better...but that being said I know this film was butchered, and I think thats why a lot of film buffs give it a lot more kudos than perhaps it deserves because of its troubled distribution history and art vs commerce rather than for its actual story elements, and I must confess I don't think I have seen all the versions... also it can't be denied that Gilliam is an amazing visual stylist who creates a brilliantly realized worlds...and I do like the comic touches in Brazil...also the ending is perhaps the most truely brilliant thing about this film...the only escape is to go mad...but its still an escape...
There are three versions (European version, which is my favorite, the recent "Director's Cut" which damages some of the timing at the start of the scene where they're arresting Jill, and the god-awful "Love conquers all" version made by Universal), and the "butchered" one never saw the light of day until years later on syndicated TV. If you're not watching the rare and abysmal "Love conquers all" cut where Sam truly escapes with Jill to the countryside and proudly tells her, "I don't dream anymore!", you're seeing Terry's pure, unadulterated vision where he's going insane at the end. And it's Terry's untampered vision that makes this film pretty much the "Citizen Kane" of the second half of the century in cinematography, lighting, and production design alone.
While the film takes some of its more obvious cues from Orwell, the world in the film is much closer to the kind of dystopia foretold in Horkheimer and Adorno's "Dialectic of Enlightenment" and Marcuse's "One-dimensional man".
For one, "1984" pretty much tells us a primitive conspiracy theory of an evil leader or a tiny evil elite consciously manipulating the general populace, whereas there's no actual figurehead in "Brazil" and nobody's evil, the torturers are only uncaringly doing their jobs without any passion or emotion and nobody knows what's really going on or even cares, no matter where they sit on the social ladder. Adorno and Marcuse agreed that the nigtmarish and absurd works of Kafka were a perfect way to describe what's wrong with the modern world, and "Brazil" has tons of kafkaesque absurdity. An important concept in those two books is that of "false needs" instilled in you by the culture aka entertainment industry so you will be complicit and docile and not do anything against the system.
Both books gained their insights particularly from the pinnacle of all that's wrong about the Western world in the form of Nazi Germany, and all three writers agreed that Soviet Communism was nothing but another form of Capitalism in disguise. "Brazil" looks like a lot of the 20th century compressed into a single moment (you can read why in Keith James Hamel's review of Terry's films where he refers a lot to Max Weber, who in turn was an important influence upon the two mentioned books), but most of all resembles the Age of Totalitarianism in wardrobes and architecture, an age which brought forth Nazism and Stalinism.
It's no coincidence that Sam drives a German Nazi-era Messerschmitt car, nor that people at the mall carry a "Consumers for Christ" sign while a child blurts out the very first thing they want from Santa is their "first credit card", or that it's always Consumerist Christmas Heaven in "Brazil". Many people today confuse "Brazil" for a look at the Soviet system, but in the second draft of the script Terry and his co-writer Alverson emphasize that "Brazil" takes a lot from both the West Bloc and the East Bloc (""It is neither future nor past, and yet a bit of each. It is neither East nor West, but could be Belgrade or Scunthorpe on a drizzly day in February. Or Cicero, Illinois, seen through the bottom of a beer bottle.") because at the end of the day, there's little difference between them, really.
It is all a façade
Its like David Lynch is reading 1984 aloud to you while you trip on acid and taking liberties with the telling. 😂JULIA!! Do it to Julia!! And Space Odyssey is on the telly 😂
...Y así todo termina...con un
"Siempre te amaré y siempre te extrañaré tanto"💋
How is this movie wholesome but nihilistic. Stupid but Intelligent. Funny yet heartbreaking. The only thing I know for Certain is that no movie before or after can reach the levels of how much of a absurd masterpiece Brazil is. Ever since I watched it I can’t stop thinking about it. This movie’s ending has the main character singing the main theme and somehow it is the bleakest thing I’ve ever seen in a movie.
not really underrated but that doesn't mean i don't think it's one of the greatest movies of all time
What a final scene👍
Felt like watching this scene today. Bleak fucking day in history. The concept of escaping into my own mind is very appealing.
Gran actuación de todos .especialmente Michael Palin. Tan perfectamente siniestro.
Época boa ate os filmes era bem melhor.
I think out of the three, the most 'realistic' and probable scenario is Fight Club's, while the most metaphorical and allegorical is Brazil's.
One thing about that observation I mentioned largely depends on who Harry Tuttle really is. One interpretation of the movie has it that Harry never existed, and Sam only hallucinates him, as he did in the finale sequence.
It's funny, I can see the clouds and sky in the American cut too.
gracias x1000,000
Guess he'll always have to be/living in a fantasy...
I don't understand why people needs a happy ending.
+Manuel Moyano It kind of is happy. For he did escape the world, to live in his dreams, which he preferred anyway.
In his masdness or delusion, that.is what Sam got at the.end.
because there are some eternal kids ! become adult and life give you the taste of tears
Who sing this song, and there is a full version?
GO TO BRAZIL
Curious, does the original Ary Barroso of the song appear anywhere in the film? Or only the recordings of others? I wonder why they chose to have English words rather than Portugese here in this ending?
That was Jonathan Pryce (Lowery) singing the English part. But i guess, in his mind it will forever be a beautiful moment of carnival.
Is there a original soundtrack for this film?? Hope so
He loved big brother
I can’t find Sid Shienberg listed as “Worst Boy” in the credits. Was that only in the European version?
In the love conquers all edit
It's only available on cable or the Criterion collection version
@@hipsterelephant2660 Oh I didn't realize it was only on the Love Conquers All edit! That makes it even better lol
@@hipsterelephant2660 what is that "love conquers all" edit, i think i havent seen it, in what way is different?
what's the name of ohoo sounding instrument ???
The year Crisis on Infinite Earths started.
当我意识到这场梦的时候刚好响起
いいＥＮＤだｗ
Really sad ending
His mind escaped to Game of Thrones! ⚔
Looks Like Beau Is Afraid End Credits.
i kind of like the blue sky and clouds of the american version, even though everything else about this version is superior. But the movie is increasingly more and more inside his head, so why not have the ending be so too? instead, in the version, you're suddenly turned into an observer.
شكرا للأخوة الأجانب على التحليلات الي الها علاقة بالفلم، اما انا ف لازم احكي انو:
حلوة المزيكا هاي
شكرا جدا جزيلا
I remember seeing Jonathan Pryce on the street in soho. I so wanted to tell him how much this movie touched me and especially how much his rendition of this song (that he sang I believe) moved me to tears. Alas, I never did.
BTW: This movie has two different endings! 1 - the "normal" version for the European's and most the world. And 2 - "friendly ending" for the US ones ...... Terry Gillian didn't liked version 2!
The US tend to want everything perfect
That's an interesting observation you have on the bombings which I'd never considered. I also now see why you compare it with V for Vendetta and Fight Club.
Hi
When I was a boy I was sure that children was singing and the instrument was real Brazilian
This is 2024, in a way.
I dunno if this was on purpose, but yknow how this is based off 1984. this film is a parody of it and was released in 1985, like it was mockkng the name of it. Probably not, someone must have noticed it, strange coincidence though...
Kinda sorta, Gilliam didn't read it when he first wrote the script but based the general idea of the film off of stuff he knew about the book.
Poor High Sparrow
I feel like I was one of the few people to whom Brazil made perfect sense. It's surprising to me because that never happens. I didn't understand American Psycho, Fight Club, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Donnie Darko, or any movies I think are kind of similar to this one at all.
No more paperwork!
Does anyone NOT feel that this movie is as if made by an 'Escapee' from a Scenario like "12 Monkeys''; sent 'back' to make this film as a warning of what is to come, and to try and stop it; but we are too lost into and hooked into the System, Globally to care or realize it...That, as of this Summer of 2020 is just were it is all going....Sadly, all an Lol...
This ending song sounds like the ending song from Rabbids Go Home
Later tell your impressions.
...End Credits of 2016. (Part 2*)
What is wrong with people like us who watch Brazil, alien 3, blade runner, rollerball. Are we just looking forward to a pish future?
idk about those other stupid movies your talking about... but people watch Brazil to remind themselves what has happened in Stalinist Russia and what is still going on today in North Korea.. thank you George Orwell!!! (bladerunner is just a classic scifi novel made into a good movie)
SAFbikes And what started in the US with the Patriot Act. Not there - but on the way ...
I was 7 old when Brazil was released. All the children of my generation were growing in a wold cut in two enemy camps, a world of fear and madness. That's why Brazil, Alien and Blade Runner tell us more than the generation which grew after the SSRU downfall. These films have captured and retransmitted the disillusioned atmosphere of the last years of Cold War.
SAFbikes
Gilliams' inspiration came from a bit closer to home than Stalinist Russia or North Korea, you know.
...End Credits of 2015.
extended into 2016
We all escaped into our dreams...
The movie has nothing to do with Brazil except this song. I think its a reference to the randomness of the subconscious. Sam is tortured into madness AND/OR escapes into his dreams and is set free (until they kill him but that does not matter either because he is already gone mentally). Figuring out the boundary between his reality and his dreams is the hard part isn't it! I always describe this film as "The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty crossed with 1984"
*SPOILERS* The song of Brazil is the symbol of happiness in the movie. Which is what the whole movie is about. The world Sam lives in is trite when it comes to happiness so when faced with the the last thing Sam could've ever wanted (love interest dead, being tortured by good friend) he escaped to happiness (Brazil.) I think the song choice is a bit random (Terry Gilliam could've used a lot of different songs) but the lyrics actually kind of go along with the movie. I suggest reading the lyrics but essentially they're saying that the person singing the song was in Brazil (Happiness) with his lover and then left Brazil and lost his lover so he's going to return to Brazil to see her. Which is why the ending is litterally Sam's ending in the real world too. When he speaks the lyrics: "Return, I will, to O, ...Brazil..." Brazil is his last word because it's essentially his goodbye to the real world and hello to Brazil (Happiness.)
Sorry for being convoluded, I'm a big nerd for this movie.
Well put!
Welcome to reality...
I may be in the minority for this, but I actually prefer 12 monkeys. Not to say this movie isn't any good, but having just seen both of these movies back to back it's a bit annoying for me to see Brazil be such a half assed attempt at recreating the magic that is the Owelian novel, 1984. Terry admits he hasn't even read the book, so it's sad to see the main story itself being the weakest aspect in this movie. Sam himself is interesting but I'm annoyed by how little chemistry he and Jill had. I get that for the overall narrative, Jill is the alter ego of Sam since he had to internally defeat his loyalty to the ministry to completely win her over. However, in the reality timeline of the movie, Jill barely has any time to have any romantic feelings towards Sam. In fact, I would argue that her falling in love with him is inconsitent with her charcter since she is a skeptical, secretive and caring person. She isn't the damsel in distress Sam wants her to be: it's shown in the film she can handle herself. I don't think the movie is total crap however: the set pieces, atmosphere, acting, mockery of the bueraucratic system, the hyper exaggerated customs we partake in (like cosmetic surgery) and it's ironic sense of humor resents with my preferences in movies. I just tend to compare Sam and Jill to James and Kathryn's romance and I can't help but wonder how much better the movie could of been had Terry not cut Jill's scenes as much as he choose to.
Imagine living with Alzheimer’s…. You should listen to the care taker- just a burning memory.
Ok, I'll admit, it's an ok ending, because we all have our Brazil, and my Brazil is fan fiction, and if I ever feel down, I will go into my Brazil, it's kind of weird that this song is not used for this years World Cup, well maybe because nobody knows what the hell this movie's is about, even Brazilians. So yeah, John Germoxican admits that this is an ok ending, Happy? But someone better give a good answer, is Sam going to die, or is he already dead? Cause I feel he did in the aftermath, because, don't they kill people anyway? Or did Tuttle Save him in the aftermath as well, because the whole escape was Sam's dream, and that means Tuttle is alive. But I'm not Terry Gilliam, so I don't know.
This ending is precisely why the film is so great. Gilliam set out to create a film where the "happy" ending was the character going insane. What happens to Sam now is sort of irrelevant - they can no longer touch him. He finally escaped. This isn't an "okay" ending, it's not even just a great ending, it's the only ending that works for this film. It's the necessary and right ending. Compare to the ridiculously sappy, implausible and tonally incongruent "Love Conquers All" ending that the studio wanted and you'll see what I mean.
It was used for the world cup
I believe it can be assumed that Sam has already been tortured and is bleeding out in the torture chair here. In the last 15 minutes, Sam starts dreaming right when the doctor is shot in the head.
because of this ending, I can't call brazil a great movie, I give it a 75 percent and to be honest, Gilliam should've made a happy ending, he calls this a happy ending how? The hero suffers, and that's not good. There are films with dark endings I love, some of them horror movies, but this is not one of them. Gilliam, you are a jerk, and you dissing Spielberg, you went to far...., you haven't made anything great in awhile, until then, you are put on my top ten directors who I can't trust, but like you movies list.
Well, if you knew the story that the movie was based off of, you would be able to see that it is a "happy ending". The movie was Gilliam's attempt to make a movie from the book 1984 by George Orwell, without actually reading the book. He had heard the story told from other people, and used that to create the movie. In the book, the ending is pretty much the same as in 1984, but the overall plots are somewhat different, along with the worlds that the main characters live. In the movie, Sam goes insane in order to escape the harsh reality, implying that the idea of Brazil is that happiness is only an illusion. In the novel 1984, the main character, Winston, is tortured into loving his "perfect" society, and ends up pretty much in the same state as Sam, going insane, but for the love of his society. The book is a criticism of Communist society, in which everyone is one body, but at the same time, it creates outcasts, like the main character. In the society, if anyone believes that there is a flaw in the society, they are tortured or killed, and have their records are erased, in order to prevent the public from seeing a flaw with the system (relating to the idea of "Buttle" being killed, and the evidence being concealed). If you read the book, and then watch the film, you can see quite a bit of errors in the story and the message, but overall, they fit together pretty well... So, before you criticize the movie, you should read the story it's based off of, in order to get an idea of why it ended as it did.
that ending is one of my favs ever! he is becomes crazy and returns to his ''brazil'' in his fantasy, if thats not a happy end idk what is, it basically means you can take and destroy everything but not someones fantasy and imagination!
Brazil was based on 1984, if you have read that book (highly recommended), you would understand that this is the only way this film could have possibly ended.
It is one of the best film endings ever! I like it because it is bitter sweet. I can't stand 'happy happy' endings. They are so fake.
Dude, I liked Gladiators ending, it was dark and bitter sweet as well.