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* The first time I watched this, having watched both ''[[Time Bandits]]'' and ''[[The Adventures Of Baron Von Munchhausen]]'', I was rather shocked. The ending spirals into insanity as {{spoiler|he's rescued, then watches his idol devoured by the papers blown from the exploding Ministry of Information, running through a madcap city, dealing with his now young, sexy, and uninterested mother, and finally, finally, seeming to find a moment of happiness, escaping with his love interest, inexplicably alive again, into the country... Where it's interrupted by the faces of his interrogator and his former boss suddenly poking onto the screen, saying that he's gone, his mind snapped by the torture.}} I was... frankly quite traumatized, after the somewhat strange, even depressing, but ultimately optimistic endings of Baron Von Munchhausen and [[Time Bandits]]... when I realized the truth. The only reason we think of the strange ending as being a fantasy is because the rest of the movie has been predominantly fairly realistic. But there's no reason to believe one world over another. The movie is as we perceive it to be, so if I want a happy ending for this character, escaping from the cruel, industrial hell that he lives in, and being the hero he always wanted to be, that he would've been had he been in the other movies, then why not?--Ajoxer

** When I saw that movie myself, I immediate went into a sort of Fridge Philosophy mode, thinking back and trying to pinpoint the exact moment when {{spoiler|his mind started to go.}} Of course, having watched the movie ''The Good Night'' the day before added a whole new level of perspective, since they share a similar theme even though the settings, plots, and characters are completely different. {{spoiler|Well, except that Sam from ''Brazil'' and Gary from ''The Good Night'' do have the same somewhat pacifistic/ineffectual nature.}}