The word "politician" means something very different from what it actually is to them.

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I actually think Brazil and Idiocracy are very similar in the way that several scenes feel very prescient and thoughtful in retrospect, but the actual main story doesn't fully hold up (and is kind of cringe at times).

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I think it works better as a bunch of vignettes than a real narrative. It's strongest with the unique shitty tech dystopian worldbuilding early on and weakest when it goes knockoff 1984. It's like an arty 2000 AD story. But Gilliam's best movie is 12 Monkeys imo

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People forget that much of the Grapes of Wrath is about the Joads having MORE in resources than many of the people they meet along the way.

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But at the same time, people in the 1940s could not comprehend the uncertainty that Americans face today.

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