First off, I love the regular version of Brazil and even wrote a paper on it last semester. However, this set also contains an alternate cut, the “Love Conquers All” version. It’s basically a version of the film with all the changes the studio wanted but Terry Gilliam refused to do.

This alternate cut is so pieced together that it is almost as if you are watching a 90 minute trailer of the regular version. The only reason to watch this cut is for the novelty of seeing how a good movie can be completely botched.

I’ll stick with the real thing, the way Gilliam intended it.

one of the only things ive stolen that i wish i hadnt. in a good way! in a good way. like i should have just paid for it. but it was like fifty bucks or something! that was a week’s salary at the time!

This movie is frighteningly relevant – issues include mechanization, class disparities, intrusive government, convoluted buereacracy, and state-sanctioned torture. Yet it is whimsical, imaginative, and in places, even humorous.

Poor Mr. Buttle…

It took me at least 7 tries to watch this movie all the way through, but it was worth the effort.