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Terry Gilliam's Brazil is one of my favorite movies ever.  I saw it in the theater back in the 80s, just out of high school, and it really made me understand that cinema was its own art form, separate from television or theater.  I only recently got the Criterion Collection DVD of this movie (which contains Gilliam's director's cut of the film), though I've owned and watched it on various formats and in various cuts in the past.  So now I'm going through a week or so of obsessing about it, and it is a VERY obsessive kind of movie.  


I haven't seen the bastardized studio edit of the film, which comes with this set, but as an editor, I can't wait to see it.  Editing really DOES shape a story, and I think it's fascinating to get to see a movie classic in a bastardized form like this.

I do wish I could get the American version of this movie on DVD, though, if only for the scene where Lowry sees his mother being prepped for plastic surgery, after the doctor stretches her skin and paints in the lines, wheels her around, and Sam exclaims, "My god, it works!"  I can't imagine why Gilliam left that out of the final version, because it always cracked me the hell up.

It feels like a scene from a Wes Craven movie. 


The bug is just so... sinister.

I also love how they've pulled down all the blues and greens, so that everything is just gray or red.  Nice.