It’s all too easy to find oneself watching dystopian films and wondering how accurately they have predicted our modern hellscape. We turn to pop culture for answers of our current era, from 1984, to Brave New World, to The Handmaid’s Tale.
Brazil, Terry Gilliam's 1985 dystopia, blended Python-esque absurdity, Kafka-inspired satire, and German Expressionism to bring to life a nightmarish vision of a future that feels horribly familiar to 2025 viewers. Nowadays, Brazil is considered a sci-fi classic and one of the great dystopian films, but it almost fell apart thanks to studio meddling and the director’s one-man fight to reclaim his vision.
