Film and Reflexivity

[Teen Age Riot]

At 09:47 AM 2/6/96 MST, Chris Stolz wrote:

>	By the way, to my mind, the two closest cinematic
>analogues to the work of Pynchon are 
>
>1)  Terry Gilliam's _Brazil_
>
I finally got around to seeing _Brazil_ this past weekend, and I
wholeheartedly agree.  The delicious sense of the absurd, the convergence of
different time periods, the comedic pessimism(or morbid optimism!), they all
made me think of TRP.  Not to mention, Sam's a very Pynchonian protagonist,
a cog in a larger system buffeted by forces beyond his control, although he
suffers a not necessarily Pynchonian fate.

Anyhoo, I LOVED the film, enuff so that I really don't want to ruin it for
any on the list who may not have seen it yet, so I guess I'll stop here.
I'm still way excited about it though, so if anyone wants to discuss it
off-listserv, I'm more than game.

Al

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