https://vo.rs/tags/bureaucracy/Latest from the Bureaucracy desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Mon, 02 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/brazil-the-dystopia-that-laughs/<p>Most film dystopias want you to be afraid. Terry Gilliam&rsquo;s <em>Brazil</em>, from 1985, wants you to laugh until you notice you have stopped, and by then the trap has closed. It is the funniest totalitarian nightmare ever committed to film, a world of clanking ductwork and misfiled paperwork and cosmetic surgery gone septic, and its comedy is precisely what makes it unbearable. A grim dystopia lets you keep your distance by scaring you. A ridiculous one pulls you in giggling and then reveals that the joke is a machine for grinding people to nothing, and that you have been enjoying it.</p>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000