1. Describe the culture at Sam’s new employer. Set somewhere in the twentieth century, the retro-futuristic world of Brazil is a gritty, urban cesspool patched over with cosmetic surgery and “designer ducts for your discriminating taste.” Automation pervades every facet of life from toaster and coffee machine to doorways, but paperwork, inefficiency, and mechanical failures are the rule. Brazil stars Jonathan Pryce in the role of Sam, a low-level bureaucrat whose primary interests in life are his vivid dream fantasies to the tune of “Brazil,” a 1940s big-band hit. In this scene, Sam is starting a new job and is being assigned an office and employee identification number.