40 years later, Brazil is as prescient as ever

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It isn’t the technology of Terry Gilliam’s sci-fi classic that holds up, but the film’s depiction of cruel bureaucracy.

It isn’t the technology of Terry Gilliam’s sci-fi classic that holds up, but the film’s depiction of cruel bureaucracy.

by Kevin NguyenAug 7, 2025, 1:00 PM UTCKevin Nguyen is a features editor at The Verge, where he publishes award-winning stories about labor, business, and policing. Previously, he was a senior editor at GQ.

Brazil opens with a bureaucratic error. A fly gets stuck in a typewriter, changing the surname of Archibald Tuttle to Archibald Buttle, a misprint on

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