The story line bounces half a dozen side plots about various food freaks, that weave in and out of the main story. Said main story is a spoof on a John Wayne western where the cowboy helps a stuggling widow shape up her business. It's reset in modern Tokyo, where the woman instead runs a ramen noodle shop. This movie tells you more, more accurately, about Japan than anything I've seen. Watch it for the comedy, and forget that its practically edu-tainment.
Brazil does to technology what stand-up comedians do to politicians.
It's also a love story, where the antagonist is the bureacracy. This is about as twisted as directing and set building get. I wonder which the videos have. Leaving Los Vegas is probably the heaviest movie I've seen, but I think about it quite a bit. It's about two incipient suicides that stick together despite loathing each other's deadly shortcomings.