Month: May 2005

Terry Gilliam’s Brazil Terry Gilliam has a long career as a darkly fantastic and absurd filmmaker. Brazil is considered his masterpiece by most fans. Inspired by George Orwell’s “1984”, and the working title for the film was “19841/2,” “Brazil” also takes place in a world overrun by a totalitarian bureaucracy, where an oppressive government watches…

“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” – Party slogan George Orwell’s 1984 Some people think of George Orwell’s totalitarian dystopia as a future that never came to pass. The year 1984 has come and gone, they figure, so his vision never manifested; however, Orwell’s cautionary tale remains…