The Horrors of Government Control essays

The Horrors of Government Control essays 1984 and Brazil are two movies that are similar in some aspects, yet at the same time, both movies are different from each other in certain areas. These two movies are alike and unlike in some ways at the same time. Both movies depict or portray how life or the future looked like if the government had total and complete control. 1984 and Brazil envisions or portrays life under government control at a closer look. The similarities between 1984 and Brazil is that they both take place in the year 1984. Also, the main characters in both movies also resemble each other in other areas as well. In the movie 1984, the main character is a man named Winston Smith. The main character in the movie Brazil is a man named Sam Lowry. Smith is an editor of the newspaper, rewriting history in one of the departments, while Lowry works for the Ministry of Information. Both men work for the government and rebel against the very same government that they work for. Smith rebels against the government by falling in love with a woman named Julia and by thinking for himself. In the movie, there is one scene where Smith would come home from work and write in his journal. This shows Smith is thinking for himself by keeping a journal. When Smith is writing in his journal, he does it in secret. He sits parallel to the television screen where Big Brothers picture is so they cannot see what he is doing because he knows he is in violation of a law. Lowry rebels by not following the rules that were set by the government. In one scene of the movie, Lowry runs frantically out of the Ministry of Information after Jill and drops all of the papers in the file he was carrying. A woman nearby scolds Lowry for littering. One of the rules imposed by the government is No Littering. This is evident because in that scene there was a sign that said No Littering and a trash vent was underneath the sign. Another similarity that the two main character...