"Information Transit got the wrong man. I got the *right* man. The wrong one was delivered to me as the right man, I accepted him on good faith as the right man. Was I wrong?"
Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) is a technocrat in a frustratingly convoluted and inefficient future stiffled by bureaucracy. He idles his days away dreaming of getting away from it all, to spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. A woman he comes into contact with when trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of an innocent man. Unfortunately, the government wrongfully think him responsible for a series of terrorist bombings, and putting both his and the woman of his dreams life in danger.
As with all Gilliam films, this is a visually stunning and complex piece of theatre. The nightmare of bureaucracy gone mad is wonderfully conveyed here.
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