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Rated R · 2h 12m
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest of an innocent man, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING?
A wacky and bleak film about the cruel caprices that thrive in an impersonal and supposedly objective bureaucracy. I found especially cutting the use of grand musical cues in what were supposedly ordinary moments, both for comedic effect and commenting on the way the main character's movie imagination became a means of futile escape from the blankness of his life.
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