Monthly Archives: October 2026

Always Look on the Bright Side of Dystopia

Imagine a world somewhere between a David Lynch fever dream and an industrial design nightmare. That’s Brazil (1985), Terry Gilliam’s bizarre, wonderfully inventive film about the superficiality of consumerism and the crushing weight of totalitarian control. In the film’s dystopian vision of the future, cavernous buildings are clogged with pneumatic tubes, mountains of paperwork, and […]