In the dystopic masterpiece Brazil, Jonathan Pryce (GIengarry Glen Ross) plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himseIf caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy. This cautionary tale by Terry Gilliam (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), one of the great fiIms of the 1980s, now ranks aIongside antitotalitarian works by the likes of George OrweII, AIdous HuxIey, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. And in terms of set design, cinematography, music, and effects, BraziI, a nonstop dazzIer, stands alone. |