I was reading IMDb a while back and noted discussion about Brazil (1985). We were overseas at the time of its release and I didn't think I had seen it. Even if I had it would've been a fuzzy, pirated video-tape copy. I put the movie on the Zip list but found it when at the library yesterday. It was a three DVD set with the 142-minute director's cut being the primary one we watched.
I liked it but I don't know why it arouses such an emotional response from so many. The cinematography was artistic and conveyed several layers of meaning. For example, I liked the scene above where billboards line a highway, so a driver isn't subjected the wasteland beyond. I also spotted the sign which read 'Consumers for Christ' at the mall a not so subtle comment about the society at Christmas. There were lots of short little memorable sequences some of which may have slipped by unnoticed. The cut-for-television version with an alternate happy-ending was included in the box. More than a half hour of the movie was missing from that version but I just wanted to see how the end was spliced together differently.