This feels like someone had a really interesting outline for a story and then handed it over to their drunk cousin who needed a job. And then that drunk cousin also happened to be that kid in high school that wrote papers with seven plots and barely made sense. Do they not have editors in Brazil? I feel like everything that they submit to Netflix is a run-on sentence during an acid flashback. There is zero oversight and quality control. They really like drama for drama's sake and to drag random thoughts out like fight scenes from Dragon Ball Z. Everything is forced and there is so much cringe. The story feels completely disjointed. So much evidence that not one person on this project had taken one basic writing course.
Here is an example: "Hi, I don't know you, but my boss was making you feel bad over your dad not paying for his bill, so I'm going to grandstand, get in his face, and loose my job to defend you - all the while I have a little brother at home that I'm responsible for feeding and we're practically destitute." That's the first thing that happens and it gets negatively weirder from there. It gets worse from there. The police brutality is ridiculous. It's so obscenely ramped up. Every cop on this show would do something to get themselves fired, sued, or shot. It's so random and uncomfortable and there is no point to it. The cops drag teenagers to the station with zero calls to their parents, trying to coerce them into confessing to crimes they didn't have evidence for, zip tying them to chairs, threatening their families - at some point a cop punches a kid in the face for not responding. They drag teen girls by the hair and slam them into cars when arresting them - the girls were just standing there with their hands up. This has nothing to do with the main story... It's so bad. I'm not giving this review anymore time.
When we unleash the Wachowskis on Netflix, we got this visually stunning story. That didn't happen here. Brazil, why?
Here is an example: "Hi, I don't know you, but my boss was making you feel bad over your dad not paying for his bill, so I'm going to grandstand, get in his face, and loose my job to defend you - all the while I have a little brother at home that I'm responsible for feeding and we're practically destitute." That's the first thing that happens and it gets negatively weirder from there. It gets worse from there. The police brutality is ridiculous. It's so obscenely ramped up. Every cop on this show would do something to get themselves fired, sued, or shot. It's so random and uncomfortable and there is no point to it. The cops drag teenagers to the station with zero calls to their parents, trying to coerce them into confessing to crimes they didn't have evidence for, zip tying them to chairs, threatening their families - at some point a cop punches a kid in the face for not responding. They drag teen girls by the hair and slam them into cars when arresting them - the girls were just standing there with their hands up. This has nothing to do with the main story... It's so bad. I'm not giving this review anymore time.
When we unleash the Wachowskis on Netflix, we got this visually stunning story. That didn't happen here. Brazil, why?