The nightmarish futuristic satire Brazil effectively blurs all lines between illusion and reality. Jonathan Pryce plays a government statistician who chooses to blind himself to the decaying, drone-like world around him. Whenever real life becomes too oppressive, Pryce fantasizes (to the tune of the 1940s big-band hit "Brazil") about being an alternate-world superhero, forever rescuing beautiful Kim Griest. The omnipresent computer that controls everything in the "real" world malfunctions, causing the mistaken-identity assassination of an innocent citizen. When Pryce routinely investigates the error, he meets Griest, the girl of his dreams. It turns out that she is an associate of terrorist Robert DeNiro, whom the computer had originally intended to target for execution. The price Pryce pays for tumbling to this fact is a close encounter with Michael Palin, the man in charge of lobotomizing troublesome citizens. Does Pryce escape his fate? Well....he thinks so. Director Terry Gilliam does too much very well in Brazil (a typically excessive moment is the hilarious plastic-surgery treatment given Pryce's mother, played by Katherine Helmond). The director's original 142-minute cut (which, under protest he whittled down to 131 minutes for the US release) is now available on videocassette.