November 29 — IMA’s One-Two Punch: “Idiocracy” & “Brazil”
Idiocracy & Brazil propose absurd and at times hilarious projections about the state of society in the future. Experience two radically different, equally interesting commentaries on the state of our world.
When: Saturday, November 29, 1 pm and 3 pm
Where: Tobias Theater Indianapolis Museum of Art 4000 N. Michigan Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46208
One Film: Members $4 / Public $8; Both Films: Members $5 / Public $10
Idiocracy is a 2006 dark comedy directed by Mike Judge, and starring Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph. The two main characters sign up for a military hibernation experiment that goes awry. They awaken 500 years in the future to discover that the world has devolved into a dystopia where marketing, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism run rampant and dysgenic pressure has resulted in a uniformly stupid human society. Despite its lack of a major theatrical release, the film has achieved something of a cult following because of its satire of the “dumbing down” of contemporary society and the breakdown of individual responsibility and consequences.
Terry Gilliam’s movie Brazil evokes the melancholy, dreamlike quality of its theme songto create the fictional totalitarian government and the overall dystopian mood of the film. The film centers on Sam Lowry, who tries to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living a life in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world reminiscent of that depicted in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, except that it has a buffoonish, slap-stick quality, and lacks any kind of figurehead.
And for your listening pleasure …
