No matter what, somehow, somewhere, someone wants to step in the way of people seeing it. Thankfully, eventually everything was ironed out, and Criterion got all the extra footage they wanted. A new commentary track featuring Gilliam's laughing voice was recorded, and the disc was released with incredible applause. The Brazil special edition proved to be one of the most important special editions ever released. If you listen very closely you will hear my screams for joy.
Brazil is about one little man's fight against the big corporate machine.
I like to look at it more simply than that, although calling Brazil simple is a pretty silly thing to do. It all starts with a bug, literally, getting caught in the system and causing a simple typo. You see, as I said in the above, Brazil is retro-futurist, which means that we are seeing a society that doesn't take any bull. It's all done very quickly and, most important, efficiently. He tries to remedy the situation, but discovers problems at every turn, until he is eventually caught so far up into the complex machination of the system, that he eventually finds himself in the torturer's chair.