2. Tuttle - Brazil
Now they got the whole country sectioned off. You cant make a move without filling out a form In Terry Gilliams twisted re-imaging of Orwells 1984, future-Englands perpetual war-machine, video surveillance and maze of propaganda have been replaced by something altogether more terrifying: paperwork. The films protagonist Sam, has been cuckolded by bureaucracy, unable to perform the simplest task without first filling out the correct government form. But inside his mind, some animalistic part of him still dreams of being free, of flying away from this cage he has grown to love. Tuttle is a heating-engineer and enemy-of-the-state. Having tired of the inhibitive rules and regulations of working within the system; he has since taken to guerrilla acts of household maintenance. This whole system of yours could be on fire and I couldnt even turn on a kitchen tap without filling out a 276/B... bloody paperwork. His death is not subtle in its symbolism, but nonetheless poetic- at films end, he disappears into a whirlwind of paperwork, never to be seen again. Tuttle is not a philosopher or ideologue, just a simple working person that wants to be left to his own devices- a libertarian.