Hello and welcome to this premium podcast of the Lotusaters. I hope you're all sat comfortably at home.

With your paperwork filmed out, we will be expecting a 27 B-stroke 6 to have been filled out before you can enter,

as Josh and I are about to talk about the 1985 Terry Gilliam film Brazil

Which is a story talking about the horrors of living in a bureaucratic nightmare. I for one can't relate could you Josh? No well it's such a

dystopian film I mean there's no commentary about the present day whatsoever. No not

at all it's totally just another sci-fi, dystopian future fiction.

Imagine what the world could be like if we lived like this, am I right?

No, it's horrifying, the relevant.

It was horrifying the relevant back in 1985

when it was released, and it's even more relevant today

as Terry Gilliam himself has pointed out

a number of times in some of the interviews

that I've been watching in preparation for this.

One of them he explicitly stated, you know, we released the film and then bureaucracy was destroyed.

We did it right guys, it's not even worse now than it was

then is it? No it's it's far worse now. What were your thoughts on the film have you

watched it before? Of course. Oh yes.

It'd be difficult to talk about it if I hadn't watched it.

I didn't mean in preparation for this, I mean prior.

Oh right.

No, I hadn't actually.

I'm not just expecting you to sit there and discuss a film that you've not watched.

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