Its time to rent Brazil again

[burythehatchet]

Just like Battle of Algiers is the definitive descroiption of urban guerilla warfar,

and 1984 is the epitome of modern social control theory,

Brazil, is the tragically accurate story of terrorism as it exists today. If, you rent it again you'll see how the reflection of contemporary cultural degradation is incredibly accurate as expressed in the story of futuristic obsession with constant plastic surgery.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

1. I see it as a satire of a public works bureacracy....

right up to managmenent as being clueless as to the technolgy they are using to manage the system.....

[burythehatchet]

3. the subtext to me was the fact that

the rise of terrorism coincided with the rise of the central authority. There's a very important lesson there. That is, there are too few people holding too much power. Just as it is today. Therefore...terrorism.

my $0.02

[papau]

2. 1984 with a dash of a put down of Ayn Rand plus a comment on running

hoses, pipes, or wire!

Plus constant plastic surgery!

:-)

[burythehatchet]

4. I've never read ayn rand

if you're up for it, please explain (in 30 words or less):)

[papau]

5. She's a bad writer who believed rich folk are the good folk & in a few

books expressed that idea. Below I dump on her a bit - indeed she was a bit more complex - strong on women's rights - including the right to choose to have an abortion - but in the end deserves to be dumped on! IMHO.

:-)

A book of hers titled "Atlas Shrugged" - meaning you're poor so what - if you worked hard and had talent you would not be - so the idea is to protect the worthwhile folks from the crap in the streets - is perhaps the most famous.

Published in 1957, the book's female protagonist, Dagny Taggart, struggles to manage a transcontinental railroad amid the pressures and restrictions of massive bureaucracy. Her antagonistic reaction to a libertarian group seeking an end to government regulation is later echoed and modified in her encounter with a Utopian community, Galt's Gulch, whose members regard self-determination rather than collective responsibility as the highest ideal. The novel contains the most complete presentation of Rand's personal philosophy, known as objectivism, in fictional form

But to call her thinking a philosophy, and give it a name - objectivism - is a bit much. The architect hero becomes the ladies lover and in a classic right wing love scene that lasted perhaps 100 words - "she felt his money and power in his body as he thrust into her" - or something like that - the above is a paraphrase - but the actual is not better written!

[burythehatchet]

6. Ahhh....the fork in the philosophical road of human evolution

thanks

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