"Brazil" constructed a centralized society supported by technology and tables (or information?). Everyone is a tiny part of a huge social machine. In the first link, there is a high degree of division of labor between people, and the only way to communicate is through forms. When Sam asked "Do you have a 27B/6 form?" in order to drive away the nasty repairman from the Central Service Agency, the thin repairman immediately vomited. Mo, initiated the goat's madness. Everyone in the system machine has unreliable confidence in their system. Soon after the beginning of the film, the funny-dressed police saw the floor of Gil's house-that is, the smallpox of Barto's house, and arrested the honest shoemaker Barto. At that time, Jill said to the clerk, "Something must have gone wrong, Mr. Barto wouldn't do such a thing." The clerk only replied four words and told her to shut up: "We don't make mistakes." He said this in his tone as if "God can't make mistakes."
The reason why "Brazil" is thought-provoking is that you don't know who is responsible for this matter until the end. Are they the police? They were just making a routine announcement. They received a form for arresting Batto instead of Tato, so they arrested him. This is their duty. As for checking the information, it has nothing to do with them. They just follow the rules. Was it the typist who killed the fly swatter on the ceiling and caused the fly to get stuck in the typewriter, causing "Tato" to become "Bato"? He may be at fault, but it would be unfair to make him bear all the guilt. In the end, our spearhead is all directed at the system-if a position is set up to be responsible for proofreading information, perhaps mistakes can be avoided. Therefore, all the guilt is attributed to the system, and Barto’s death has become the cost of the system reform. Everyone is doing their part, and every specific person is innocent. ——The recent incident of slave labor in the black kiln in Shanxi shocked the entire society, but so far no high-ranking official has resigned for this incident. The only one who "stepped down" was the scapegoat and the critic of the village party secretary. This problem is understood as the outbreak of chronic social diseases left over from the past years, and the question of how social chronic diseases accumulate has been cleverly avoided. Yes, this issue is very complicated. System loopholes have led to serious "official standard" thinking. It has become the norm for people's livelihood and welfare to be ignored. This issue seems to be everyone's responsibility-and the law does not account for the others, everyone has the responsibility. It is equivalent to that everyone does not need to be responsible.
Director Terry Gilliam did not even leave any opportunity for "Brazil" to modify the system. In "Brazil", the system is so powerful and pervasive that everyone has to obey the system and obey the arrangements of the system. In the end, the system replaced the conscience of human nature. What "Brazil" implies is that a society where people's initiative and nature are infinitely compressed with a high degree of trust in institutions and technology, and its decay is inevitable. The most frightening thing is that this decay may not die but has always existed and continued steadily. In the end, everyone is accustomed to accepting institutional arrangements and occasional deviations. Elites who have shown a sense of resistance are regarded as terrorists and fully The people of the trust system also have no objection to this: in "Brazil", Tato did not carry out any terrorist attacks, his only "crime" is like the "technical speculation" in the 1980s in our country-Tato Because I was tired of the disgustingly complicated procedures and endless forms in the Central Service Agency, I became a "self-employed" and "operated without a license" to repair air-conditioning pipes for residents. In the dream of Sam being executed, Tato was swallowed by papers and forms flying around, and the pedestrians passing by were expressionless, and no one stopped to stop.
Wei Zhou is a Blogger I like very much. He is engaged in the advertising industry in Shanghai, but most of the blog posts are related to literature and history. I have benefited a lot from his articles. In an article, he mentioned his new job at the time, “Under this kind of process, the system is always the role, not the individual. I also know that there are actually many mediocrities in this huge hive. But just like everyone can produce similar McDonald’s in accordance with standardization, the quality of their products is not so uneven. Here, the advantages and disadvantages are equally amazing to me. "Standardization, no difference, bring people This is the basic feature of industrial society, and this idea has gradually spread in the fields of education and social governance. Standardized topics, scores, and standardized college entrance examinations are just like what farmers use to screen apples. Sieves, large and small, are eliminated, and only apples that just meet the criteria are selected.
"The system replaces people" has almost become an unchangeable trend. "Brazil" takes this trend to the extreme. "Table" as a symbol of institutional machinery has legally replaced all relationships between people. The relationship between systems and people is no longer that the system serves people, but that people are there. "Fill the pit" in the system. The absurd shots that can be seen everywhere in "Brazil"-sawing the ceiling, the complicated arrest procedure of putting people in bags, the forms flying in the sky after the explosion of the pipe, and the elusive baby-faced mask-nothing is wrong. Great mockery of system worship and technology worship.
I was impressed by a picture in "Southern Weekend"-there are no railings on the sidewalks in Hong Kong. In Shanghai, in order to prevent pedestrians from crossing the road, fences are set up on both sides of almost all main roads.
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