Brazil

Brazil is a film from 1985, is about a totalitarian government a government that controls many aspects of an individual’s life and uses technology as a way of controlling them. Sam Lowry is a low raking citezen who finds an escape from his dull boring life by having daydreams with a woman who he has yet to meet named Jill. Unlike his reality when Sam has his dreams he experiences a nature-like, colorful, and romantic life next to his beloved Jill.His quest to find Jill and finding her gives him the courage to go against his totalitarian government and break the rules. At the end Sam is captured by Harry Tuttle and is tortured, unlike Winston from 1984 Sam is able to use his daydreams to block all his sufferings and have his very own “happy ending” even as he is being tortured to death.

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