a reply to: intrptr Metropolis most certainly. But Brazil. Now that was one hell of a movie. Unlike THX, I have my own copy of Brazil. The night mare of the cops cutting a hole in the ceiling and jumping through on the whim of a bureaucratic miscue. All that so familiar from today's headlines.And our hero who can only be a hero in his fantasies, until poof, it all blows away in a cyclonic wisp of air.And one nearly forgotten scene where the rich old lady who is still trying to be young and beautiful, her sagging face all bandaged over from unsuccessful attempts at plastic surgery, trying like hell to still believe, says, "My complications have had complications"There was a time in my life that I hoped that movies like these would be revered as portents, as glimpses into futures we did not want to come about. That people would see them and in one manner or another alter the course of their own lives from what they had learned about themselves and society and move in a more positive direction, as has been the case for some of us, but for sure not enough of us because those movies never made it past the 'art' theater crowd.But then I saw "Network". Big huge cast. Won all the Oscars that year. And what effect did it have on most people. None. Ziltch. Just another story. OMG. The deeper truths about the msm and corporate culture expounded upon by Chayefsky were were spot on. And even in the movie, the 'masses' who had had something inside plucked to attention still were incapable of anything more than being an applauding audience. Just all part of the show. So??? On with the show.