Humanity or the machine? Terry Gilliam nails the vulgar arbitrariness of Fascism. The inequality, ever-present threat of violence, the fierce stupidity of it all is all display in this nightmarish work of prophecy.
The production design pulls from City Lights and Triumph of the Will and the whole low dishonest decade of the 1930’s.
But he anticipates the beauty fixation in a world that lacks feeling. Truly a work of deep humanism - that shows us the depths to which a society loses its soul.