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*PREVIEW* DrabFuture: TF Watches ’Brazil’ (1985)

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TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This week, it's Hussein, Nate, and Alice discussing the 1985 Terry Gilliam movie BRAZIL, why we feel obligated to watch it, why we think it really dislikes women, and why it somehow managed to nail one thing: the cops. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/drabfuture-tf-71669978 *AUSTRALIA ALERT* We are going to tour Australia in November, and there are tickets available for shows in Sydney: https://musicboozeco.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/3213de46-cef7-49c4-abcb-c9bdf4bcb61f and Brisbane https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/trashfuture-live-in-brisbane-additional-show-tickets-396915263237 and Canberra: https://au.patronbase.com/_StreetTheatre/Productions/TFLP/Performances *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0

I feel like there's an element to which something very funny in this that you can't help

0:05.0

noticing is that like this would have been Theo's normal workday if baby Diego hadn't

0:12.2

died and he hadn't taken the day off.

0:14.4

Yes.

0:14.9

Yeah, that's true.

0:19.0

So basically, this becomes a bureaucratic problem because of the fact that they've been, they've received a refund check because it's, they, someone has realized the mistake with Buttell and it's implied Buttel died during interrogation.

0:32.4

He's been tortured to death and now they can't bill him wrongly, so they just have this refund check.

0:39.1

And it's sort of a departmental catastrophe because his boss doesn't know what to do with it,

0:44.1

and it's just been dumped in their laps.

0:45.9

And so he, so Sam decides, Sam basically knows how to solve this.

0:49.1

He tries to deposit it into Mrs. Butler's bank, but she doesn't have a bank account,

0:52.7

so he has to go in hand, deliver the check to her. So he goes out to like this fucking, you know, dystopia estate,

0:58.6

the sort of like, um, it's just, the best way I can describe it is it, it's like an apartment

1:03.5

complex built in the industrial yard from Robocop where, we're like in the same, like,

1:08.0

you expect that the dude who got hit with the toxic ooze who turns into the mutant, which is walk across the street.

1:14.0

Yeah, it's sort of like your failed British social housing project, but slightly grimy.

1:22.5

Like, maybe 5%.

1:24.0

And, but also, like, not really British looking.

1:27.1

Like, it looks like, it looks like a failed

1:29.7

futurist attempt from Italy or something like that. And he basically, he goes, he drives in like

1:35.7

what basically looks like a fucked up Morris Minor. Um, because nobody has... They use, they,

1:40.9

they, they use barely altered cars for this. And it's like a a little Mishisholmitt, sort of microcar.

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