"legally"
You're so cute.

at this point I may be personally supporting the entire film and television industry

Stop fucking funding the movie industry with your secret billions, boner! If I have to watch another fucking edgy teen sequel because the first one made more money than a small middle eastern country I'm going to chop your face off.

I don't like downloading movies, but I do. I'm in a band and it's the same thing but worse. If we were big enough to make a splash (I guess pitchfork's reviewing our new album so we'll see) it'll still probably be downloaded or bandcamped. Which means slim to nil financial gain for the band. Probably just a free beer and nachos and that's all I want.

My other band was featured in a pretty big oscar nominated movie and it's the same thing. If every movie was like Brazil then I'd go to the movies I guess. Instead it's "maybe this movie won't suck" so I'll download it when it comes out. Basically we're destroying ourselves and forcing shit down our throats like whateverthefuck it is that's popular.

This scene is about a particular kind of character that crops up again and again in different guises. In this world, he is a repairman. That's a very dangerous person to be. For you see, problems exist in this world ( and ours ) largely because they are created by people. To fix a problem is to challenge the creator; often very wealthy and powerful people, those problem creators. So you see, Mr. Fix-it here has to operate clandestinely, so as to effect the real and necessary repairs without the larger machinery noticing and putting a stop to it. This is the character known to the Greeks as Prometheus.

Catholicism considers Prometheus their Devil, which tells you much everything you need to know about the subject of Catholicism. But the Greeks understood.

Terry put a lot of thought into this movie. Try it again.

I think you missed the point of movie, no offense. The movie is not about "working in an office sucks." It's about a guy who basically willingly participates in an awful authoritarian government that horrifically abuses its citizens and he could care less so long as it doesn't annoy him or bore him too much and when he sees his chance to get his "dream girl" that's pretty much all he cares about all other considerations put aside. Sam Lowry is basically an awful person and it's about a world of awful people all contributing to an awful system in a darkly comic way. It's basically a big movie-length joke, the joke being taking a cautionary fable like 1984 and making so that Winston Smith is no longer an admirable victim of circumstance who attempt, in vain, to fight the system, but rather the guy who is totally cool with the system so long as he can go home at the end of the day and enjoy simple pleasures which is a far more realistic portrayal of a 1984-like scenario in today's society.

Yeah I've been due for a rewatch. To be honest I can't even remember how it ends. Gilliam, more than almost any other director I can name has this quality where you like the movie when you're younger and it only becomes smarter and smarter without falling into film school 101 discussions as you get older. For example, I saw 12 Monkeys thinking it would be this crazy action-packed time travel movie, because time travel and Bruce Willis. I left the theatre pretty disappointed: "That was the final shootout? Derp." If I could go back in time and slap the 16-year-old-me I probably would. #Timeslapped