If the memory is correct, the author promotes it as an excellent, ideological, surreal science-fiction film full of symbols and irony. At that time, I worshipped "Brazil" as a sci-fi film on the same level as "2001: A Space Odyssey", but unfortunately, I finally made my first contact with these two films today after many years.
Let me reminisce about this encounter. Two days ago, when I finished watching "The Fantastic Show of Dr. Parnassus" because I missed Heath Ledger, it was like a fairy tale scene (honestly, No worse than Alice), and the surreal scenes like Dalí's works after entering Dr. Parnassos' brain, and the real real world - Heath Ledger still uses a mobile phone, and the director keeps changing the picture to hit my optic nerve. And, the deep meaning behind these fantastic pictures and stories - the semiotic meaning that can be dissected here, the discussion of human nature and the attack on the real society, etc., etc.
Wait, it's just a movie, why is it so complicated? I tracked down the director's name - Terry Gilliam. "Twelve Monkeys", "Brazil"...
"Brazil", "Brazil"!
I can't wait for the VC to come down.
When I finally met him, "Brazil" lived up to my nearly ten-year wait.
If I were to write a hymn for it, to sing praises to this classic of the last century, I would face many difficulties, including difficulties in learning, difficulties in expressing ability...
But the point is, there is no need for this at all.
After watching this movie, the first thing that came to my mind was what I had read about "the goal of graphic design".
Graphic design is like a movie, "has a purpose or exists for something, and in the social context of the early 21st century, there's a bit of a perverse age. It seems like it should belong to an ideology and fundamental truths may exist while the manifesto is An era of praise." "Many designers... feel that it is their duty—their moral duty—to use the power of design to advance society and politics..." (ALICE TWEMLOW, WHY GRAPHIC DESIGN)
And "Brazil" seems to exist for this purpose. It is full of metaphors and irony, and examines the real world with absurd life and absurd fantasies. Although it is the reality of the twentieth century, the reality in "1984" . After "Entertainment To Die", people have already talked about this topic. Regarding the realization of "1984" and "Brave New World" in the 21st century, we all see "1984" and "Brazil" The fantasy inside is falling apart today, and Brave New World is becoming a reality.
It is precisely because "Brave New World" has gradually become a reality that "culture" is regarded as something that does not need to exist. People only need a healthy life, endless entertainment and sex, no need to read and think, let alone go. Analyze and pursue the meaning and purpose of life.
Graphic design is only a means of selling goods today, like the sleep education in Brave New World, repeated 62,000 times: "It's better to throw away than mend. The more you mend, the less wealth", 62,000 times The repetition creates a truth. Graphic design today plays such a constantly hypnotic role.
What the movie plays is entertainment, entertainment, entering a dream, waking up again, returning to work; all the money earned from work is used for shopping, satisfying the material desire that has been hypnotized countless times in the depths of the memory, and then entertainment, again Entering a dream - everyone has the same dream...
"Brazil" describes a powerful society that lacks equality, a story of individuals under a system who pursue freedom and happiness and eventually die absurdly. For me, this film is a fantasy left over from the last century, which reminds people of those times of pain in the soul, the yearning for freedom and the beautiful imagination of the future that grew up in the cage.
"A life without death is an unbearable life. A life without death is impossible. It is death that defines life and makes life tense. Because it is fleeting, every moment seems to be enough. Precious" (Osho).
The same is true of life, joy must coexist with pain, so that is an abundant life.
God doesn't mind us going after him.
Sam, the protagonist in "Brazil", grew wings in fantasy, defeated the enemy as a paladin, and rescued the fairy sister. Although the director finally forced us to fall back to reality, who said that the dream didn't come true?
As long as we still have dreams, still look up at the stars, and still fear nature, we will finally break out of our cage and find a truly beautiful new world.
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