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Just for those who have remarked that they live in Brazil. It's the movie Brazil that this meme is referring to.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nah, I can see it.

  • 1984: they’re rewriting history / propagandizing
  • Idiocracy: the morons are in charge
  • Hunger Games: they’re pitting us against each other
  • Brave New World: they’re distracting us with entertainment

The others seem to fall pretty well into those categories.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're also rewriting history in Idiocracy (It's actually a key story element at the end).
"They're pitting us against each other" is one of the most important aspects in 1984.
And "They're distracting us with entertainment" is literally at the core of Hunger Games.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

So it still works beautifully

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

now explain brazil there, how is it om the 1984 and not hunger games

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Are you thinking of the film or the country?

The film has a large overbearing surveillance state / bureaucracy as the chief antagonist, it’s about the suppression of art and loss of human connection. Do you see it differently?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

wiat there is a film called brazil?

[–] monotremata 8 points 18 hours ago

It's directed by Terry Gilliam, and it's brilliant. It's set in a bureaucratic totalitarian state, and follows a minor functionary who is slowly losing his mind. There are multiple overlapping plots, involving a rebel heating engineer, a man mistakenly abducted and tortured to death by the government after a computer glitch, the functionary's politically ambitious mother, a quack plastic surgeon, a beautiful truck driver, terrorist attacks, and the functionary's ever-growing escapist fantasy life. It's one of my favorite films. Right up there with Delicatessen in terms of dystopian comedy sci-fi.