“Brazil” (1985) SciFi Sunday 8:30PM August 8th @ Prides Corner Drive In

651 Bridgton Road,Westbrook ME 04092

08 August, 2021

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Sunday August 8th Only! Sci fi presentation.. “Brazil” 1985 Rated R Showtime approx.8:30PM Gates open by 7:30PM $15 TICKET is for one CAR and all its occupants for the Single Feature!(See ticket info for restrictions) What a deal! Showtime is approximately 8:45PM Gates open by 7:30PM perhaps earlier... FOR ADMITTANCE TO THEATRE!!! ...at the boxoffice... 💫 Printed Ticket is preferred! Can’t print no problem... 🎥 We can and will check in cars by ticket purchaser’s full name if unable to print out tickets!***** It is a SINGLE FEATURE evening and we hope you will join us! The film centres on Sam Lowry, a low-ranking bureaucrat trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. Brazil's satire of technocracy, bureaucracy, hyper-surveillance, corporatism and state capitalism is reminiscent of George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four[11][12][13] and has been called Kafkaesque[14] and absurdist.[13] Sarah Street's British National Cinema (1997) describes the film as a "fantasy/satire on bureaucratic society", and John Scalzi's Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies (2005) describes it as a "dystopian satire". Jack Mathews, a film critic and the author of The Battle of Brazil (1987), described the film as "satirizing the bureaucratic, largely dysfunctional industrial world that had been driving Gilliam crazy all his life".[15] Despite its title, the film is not about the country Brazil nor does it take place there; it is named after the recurrent theme song, Ary Barroso's "Aquarela do Brasil", known simply as "Brazil" to British audiences, as performed by Geoff Muldaur.[1Though a success in Europe, the film was unsuccessful in its initial North American release. It has since become a cult film. In 1999, the British Film Institute voted Brazil the 54th greatest British film of all time. In 2017, a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers, and critics for Time Out magazine saw it ranked the 24th best British film ever.[17]