Brazil
《妙想天开》（1985）

We've seen Terry Gilliam's Brazil three times, and we're still not sure what's going on. Something about a dystopian future? A man named Sam Lowry is hired to investigate a printer jam that led to the accidental imprisonment and death of a regular citizen, Archibald Buttle, instead of a wanted terrorist, Archibald Tuttle. Is that what's going on? We have no idea. The terrorist (played by Robert De Niro) is also an air-conditioner repairman who at one point helps Lowry fix his broken AC. Some people are arrested; other people fall into a bottomless casket during a funeral. Then things get really weird. Is Brazil supposed to be real, or is the entire story unfolding in the mind of its main character, a delusional, doped-up Lowry who has been declared clinically ? Who knows.

特瑞·吉列姆的电影《妙想天开》我一共看了三次，但仍对影片要讲的东西似乎依旧一知半解。打印机的一个小错误导致了普通人阿奇巴德·巴特被捕和惨死，这次行动的真正目标是受到通缉的恐怖分子阿奇巴德·塔特。萨姆·罗瑞受命调查此事。然后呢？我不知道。罗伯特·德尼罗饰演的恐怖分子的另外一个身份是曾为罗瑞修理空调的空调修理师。有些人被捕，还有些人则在葬礼上跌落到了无底的棺材中。一切都是这么疯狂。这部电影描写的是现实、还是在向观众不断呈现精神错乱、充满幻想的萨姆·罗瑞的内心世界？