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