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listen, kid.. we’re all in it together..

 

Yesterday opened HANCOCK (2008, Peter Berg) and i honestly couldn’t give a rat’s ass.. 

Early word on this bird says that it has a very stanky whiff of LAST ACTION HERO (1993, John McTiernan), and we all know how fuckin’ RANK that was.. 

This movie will probably make bank whether or not it is good.. All because Mr. Will Smith always makes bank on the fourth of July.. 

The very themes that this piece of shite attempts to deal with (the humanity and mortality of ‘so-called’ superheroes) will be dealt with WAY BETTER next year when the long-awaited WATCHMEN (2009, Zack Snyder) is released.. 

 yeah, this shite is gonna kick ass.. 

 

But in the meantime, i’d like to talk about the movie that is playing right in front of me as i write this post.. 

 

 

And that movie is BRAZIL (1985, Terry Gilliam).. 

 

Set somewhere in the 20th. Century in a giant, unnamed metropolis where the grey suits and paperwork flows like blood through the clogged veins of an eventual heart-attack victim, the story follows a little man named Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), a low-level government employee who is conflicted about his role in an overreaching bureaucracy. We learn that he is initially happy with his “dead end job” and simple life, and that he habitually escapes into a fantasy world of romantic struggles. His contented but lonely life becomes complicated by his mother’s attempts to secure him a promotion, the intrusion of a renegade heating engineer, and the real-life appearance of the woman of his dreams.. 

 

Throughout the story Sam becomes involved in complicated and life-threatening attempts to secure himself happiness, while also developing a strong hatred for the system of which he is a part. Ultimately, his efforts culminate into a violent and tragic climax, the outcome of which depends entirely on his friends’ loyalty to Sam over their loyalty to the system that controls them.. 

 

Featured in this story is (in my humble opinion) one of the greatest characters in film history: Archibald ‘Harry’ Tuttle (played by Robert De Niro).. His philosophy on life is what i wish i was living right now: 

“I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there’s trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can’t make a move without a form. this old system of yours could be on fire and I couldn’t even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a 27b/6… Bloody paperwork.. 

“Listen, kid.. we’re all in it together..” 

 

sigh.. i wish.. 

 

so, ’til next time, comrades.. 

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