On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:26:28 -0700 (PDT), "Sniper8052@yahoo.co.uk"
 said in
:

>I must confess to a certain density, I don't get it.

One of the themes in the film Brazil is that people are charged for
"Information Retrieval" when they are accused of a crime.  Since the
Information Retrieval method is torture, they usually end up
confessing, and thus convicted.  Hence "Don't fight it son, confess
quickly. If you hold out too long, you could jeopardise your credit
rating."

It is a very amusing satire on the theme of bureaucracy and its
inability to understand the concept of human error.

It's a very good film, with Jonathan Price, Robert de Niro, Ian
Holm, Bob 'Oskins, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan and Jim Broadbent.
If you've not seen it, I recommend it - a more surreal alternative
to 1984.  Oh, and written and directed by Terry Gilliam.

Guy
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Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:26:28 -0700 (PDT), "Sniper8052@yahoo.co.uk"
>  said in
> :
> 
>> I must confess to a certain density, I don't get it.
> 
> One of the themes in the film Brazil is that people are charged for
> "Information Retrieval" when they are accused of a crime.  Since the
> Information Retrieval method is torture, they usually end up
> confessing, and thus convicted.  Hence "Don't fight it son, confess
> quickly. If you hold out too long, you could jeopardise your credit
> rating."
> 
> It is a very amusing satire on the theme of bureaucracy and its
> inability to understand the concept of human error.
> 
> It's a very good film, with Jonathan Price, Robert de Niro

as a heroic anti-state Heating Engineer. Worth it for that alone.


Colin

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:39:03 +0100, Rob Morley 
said in <20080917123903.244fadfc@bluemoon>:

[ob. Brazil]

>> It is a very amusing satire
>Amusing?  I thought it was grim.  Definitely worth watching though.

Black humour, innit.  And a sort of British retro-futurism.

Guy
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On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Rob Morley  wrote:
>  On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:32:52 +0100
>  "Just zis Guy, you know?"  wrote:
> 
> > One of the themes in the film Brazil is that people are charged 
> > for "Information Retrieval" when they are accused of a crime.  
> > Since the Information Retrieval method is torture, they usually 
> > end up confessing, and thus convicted.  Hence "Don't fight it son, 
> > confess quickly. If you hold out too long, you could jeopardise 
> > your credit rating."
> > 
> > It is a very amusing satire
> 
>  Amusing?  I thought it was grim.  Definitely worth watching though.

I found it amusing the first time (long ago).  I tried watching it 
again about six months ago, and found too much of it too close to 
reality here and now to derive amusement from it.

regards,   Ian SMith
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