ThisDiseased Lewis Carroll Universe

....thats what, american film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum called Terry Gilliam´s film TIDELAND.

"I don´t want to do what is easy ...I don´t want to do what everybody else is doing.

There´s enough people out there doing that and they are tecnically better than I am 

I don´t want know about that.

I wanna take the ideas, the stories... that nobody wants to touch 

or doesn´t know how to make in this instance"

- Terry Gilliam

The first movie i ever saw of Terry Gilliam was 12 Monkeys. It attracted me because of my cousin ALEX. WHO told me you had to watch this FILM! Its Brad Pitt & Bruce Willis like you´ve never seen them. Not in hollywood STYLE but in the world of Terry Gilliam!! He also got me interested in riding bikes, READING Spiderman comics (he had a massive collection) The magazine "HEAVY METAL" listening to jazz,  Neil Peart´s DRUMMING, Nine Inch Nails The downward spiral, oil Painting and french press coffee.

As we begin to grow and experience things we begin liking some better than others. Brands and styles. Movies and stories. Trends and tendencies. As if we were trying on clothes. We watch on others and on ourselves. Some stay forever others pass quickly. The importance of having options or adding colors to our own palette is fundamental.In movie making the more you have to choose from the better. I have many favorite films & directors one of them is Terry Gilliam because he makes no repeated formulas.He has no FEAR.

The representation of SPACE affects the reading of a film. Depth, proximity, size and proportions of the places and objects in a film can be manipulated through camera placement and lenses, LIGHTNING( has a profound effect on the way an image is perceived), DECOR(the objects contained in and the setting of a scene), effectively determining mood or relationships between elements in the diegetic world. Terry Gilliam plays with all of these elements for his dark storytelling.

His worlds are full of fantasy and dirt, a magic loneliness, surreal confussion and misguided adventures...as if we enterd a world full of lost people in the after math of war. A world recovering. A world that just exploded and is trying to join all the broken pieces. Like in BRAZIL. A world not completly clean nor clear in ideas. Deeply troubled main characters that have to socialize within as well  as stumbling onto others. There are no supporting ROLES everyone counts. As in movies or theatre we all are laughing as we witness the brutality of the few who think PEOPLE MUST BE CONTROLED. Gilliam makes this point across like on  the Monthy Python skits.

Only in a Terry Gilliam movie you will see HUGE UNIQUE

worlds made of clouds and doubts, colorful CHARACTERS, grey PERFORMANCES,  factory bureaucracy, deformed lifestyles , THE BROTHERS GRIMM, a fisher king, the future made of brick walls, A  BARON MUNCHAUSEN, CRAZY CAMERA ANGLES,  the ever present poor people, the all seeing eyes, all the  questions remain silent as type writers, TIME BANDITS , ZERO THEOREMS and wait...Tom Waits is the devil.??????

To André Bazin, a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist, he believed that a film should represent a director's personal vision but the interpretation of a film or scene should be left to the spectator.

The real magic of Terry Gilliam, to me is that he doesn´t have to make sense. Nor is trying to give us a happy closure perfect movie ending. He screams his thoughts and ideas out there for us to see and experience. No one is right or wrong. THE IMAGINATION has no limit. Every MIND is DIFFERENTLY complicated. As admiring a painting... Gilliam´s work stays with us and speaks to you. And you ALONE. Everyone can criticize but you have to acknowledge...He has THE COURAGE TO PUT IT ON FILM. His work has influenced, trascended  and molded my creative process in so many different ways  as those rainy afternoons with my cousin ALEX... listening to jazz, drinking coffee and  watching a Terry Gilliam movie...