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                    “Remember, we're all in this together.”
                                        
> Brazil, 1985, directed by Terry Gilliam, written by Terry Gilliam, Charles
> McKeown, and Tom Stoppard. In Brazil, Terry Gilliam asks the audience to
> imagine a world where the government wages a never- ending war with shadowy
> terrorists, a world where civil liberties are being destroyed in the name
> of security, a world where torture becomes official state policy in order
> to conduct more efficient interrogations of suspected terrorists. What's
> more, in Gilliam's fictional world, the central government is not just
> secretive but incompetent. Mistakes are made, leading to the imprisonment
> and torture of innocents. Most offensive of all, Gilliam implies that such
> a government could exist without its citizens staging an armed revolt. I'm
> usually willing to suspend disbelief, but this goes too entirely too far.
> 

Via Jason Kottke [1], “#51: Brazil [2]”

Yeah, he's right—a government like that could never happen.

[1] http://www.kottke.org/remainder/07/03/13111.html
[2] http://criterioncollection.blogspot.com/2006/03/51-brazil.html

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