In many ways the film, Brazil, can be seen as a satire to the larger source material of 1984.  In both texts, they provide examples of futuristic societies that predominately feature the use of an overbearing ruling power.  While the novel of 1984 deals with real problems, such as the loss of basic human rights, the film Brazil also features such ideas but wanders around a character who is a hopeless romantic searching for the woman he dreams about.  1984 varies from this because it discusses the pain that Winston goes through while trying to find the Brotherhood and leaves his current life of oppression.  The most pain that Sam goes through is the inability to get his heating system fixed, dealing with an overbearing mother, and the long search for the woman he thinks he is in love with that he has never actually met.  Brazil is in its own way a great film.  Having someone like Terry Gilliam makes the film the direct reason why it’s so funny while having the ability to maintain a serious tone all at once.  It’s interesting to notice what he took away from 1984 while molding his own world.  If he were to have made the adaptation of 1984 that would have been interesting to see how he would have approached the material differently. 

The two societies while seeming similar in appearance are actually very different.  While both societies feature heavy uses of technology surroundings, the way in which the people operate is very different.  In 1984, the people keep to themselves for the most part and do not communicate with each other.  This feature has to do with the amount of laws and the type of laws that are being put forth in this world.  The people of the world in 1984 are stripped of their basic rights and due to this do not know how to properly act or interact.  The film, Brazil, on the other hand, features a world that is more peppy, in unison, and full of wacky, outgoing characters.  Like 1984, a large majority of society and including Sam merely just fall into place.  Sam essentially dissolves into his environment.  Even when Sam begins to take charge of situations, such as when he is trying to get to his love in the lobby of his office building and indirectly alarms the security guards, they just allow him to leave with no questions asked.  When Winston started to take charge of the situation, he got caught and was put in a cell and forced to endure his worst fear.  The film, Brazil, has a lot more of a happy-go lucky feel through the entirety of the film that could have easily become disastrous if occurring in the world of 1984.