Years before the Wachowskis made The Matrix, filmmaker Terry Gilliam made an extraordinarily prescient satire on “government gone wild”—with the “never-ending terrorist” subplot as part of his dystopian film. It was called Brazil. At the time this film was released, I was still a Far Left Liberal. I had a free pass to a private screening of the movie on the studio lot of Universal (the company that co-distributed the film). I actually walked out after a few minutes because I thought the film was stupid. Recently, I thought back and had a hunch that I would probably like it … Continue reading The Bureaucracy of ‘Brazil’