TORONTO AFTER DARK 2009: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN BLOODY TORTURERS

"Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers" is about a clerk that has been assigned to a dungeon to evaluate the torturers' effectiveness, but runs into a few problems when his presence becomes known. I really enjoyed this short because it reminded me of Orson Welles’s film The Trial as well as Terry Gilliam’s Brazil - both films notably criticizing the bureaucratic process.

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FILM REVIEW: BRAZIL

Terry Gilliam is a true auteur, each and every one of his films is distinctively Gilliam. Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas (1998), 12 Monkeys (1995) and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), are easily identifiable as being his, the style and subject matter is innately personal and Brazil (1985) is no exception. In Brazil, Gilliam takes on the anti-totalitarian sub-genre of science fiction cinema that focuses on rebelling against unjustifiable governments that are controlling the general public, and the quest for individuality and existentialism. Gilliam claimed that he has never read the novel 1984 by George Orwell, even though he was originally going to title the film 1984 ½.

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