Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger.
What an incredibly dull and boring movie. I was into this for about the first 15-20 minutes and then it just kept going on and on. Terry Gilliam officially makes weird movies (this being more weird than Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas). I really don't know why Robert De Niro was apart of this movie (he's barely in it by the way).
Oh boy, do LLC, me, and Turi have to lecture your ass again for you to reverse your score again?
Besides, I bet in Texas you never were forced to read 1984, right? A pity, for you would have so got the movie more(or least maybe more if you expected more than simply DeNiro's cameo acne-scared face. "Renegade Engineer!" You gotta love Gilliam)
Well, since you haven't read it, the whole movie is Gilliam's Monty Python-esque pisser on bureaucracies, and really his own version of the dystopia of 1984. Very creative film, and its ending, a conclusion of a whole heroic daydreaming subplot, is feel-good in spite of what would appear initially to be a downer.
