ly, the Nazi's attempted charging Jews for there stay at concentration camps. Although the CIA is hardly a Nazi party, the film brings out the awareness that people should think as individuals and be wary of allowing too much information, becoming evermore synonymous with power these days, to rest with one source. Conspiracy theories were very popular at the time and this went well with the movie.Among other comparisons that Brazil made with the American government is the quote, "Happiness: we're all in it together." This was a standard poster that had been plastered all over America during the great depression. In Brazil, it is visible at Shangri La Towers and other locations where the working class people lived. The irony of the quote is that it is only where those posters where hung that people really where in it together trying to get through the control of the Ministry of Information and live their lives in piece. But they were not in it together with the Ministry of Information that posted the billboards. The upper class, on the other hand, had no worries about the Ministry abducting them unless they were to meddle more deeply into their affairs as Sam Lowry did.Not only were the people at Shangri La Towers in it together, they were the reality, as was sprayed on the walls of the Towers. Although most of the movie was viewed from an elitist perspective, it was apparent that the majority of people were not happy, and definitely not reaping the benefits of the growing technology. This large gap between the working and upper class was also of great concern during the eighties. President Reagan had recently been elected to office whose policies are known for making the rich richer and the poor poorer. Such bizarre science fiction films as Brazil are a great way to address delicate issues and have people consider the problems in society without having as much of a bias about the problems.But the people of the working class w...
