a review of 妙想天开

I finally started watching Brazil after having it on my watchlist for many years, but it turned out to be too chaotic and arty farty to my liking, like an extravagant, absurdist rock opera. So I stopped watching it after about 15 minutes. Maybe I'll revisit it another time, when I'm more in the mood for a film like this, but I think I like the less abstract Gilliam films more, such as The Fisher King. I generally prefer surrealism with a dark, gloomy flavor, like Eraserhead (1977), Donnie Darko (2001) and Enemy (2013).