sentences: "Brazil"s satire of bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and has been called Kafkaesque and absurdist.Sarah Street's "British National Cinema" (1997) describes the film as a "fantasy/satire on bureaucratic society"; and John Scalzi's "Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies" (2005) describes it as a "dystopian satire".