The Crimson Permanent Assurance is a wonderful short film that prefaces Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. The story basically involves a group of older accountants and other workers in a large unspecified financial corporation. They overthrow their oppressors and "set sail on the high seas of international commerce." Directed by Terry Gilliam, this shows some of the themes to be later developed in Brazil, mainly bureaucratic oppression, and imaginative methods of liberation. I love Gilliam's visuals...he has a knack for rendering onscreen vivid fantasies, from CPA to Brazil, even going to Time Bandits, The Fisher King, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. If you've never seen it, rent Monty Python's The Meaning of Life and give yourself double the adventure.
Review of The Crimson Permanent Assurance
