Welcome to Brazil, Where a Computer Bug Condemns a Man to Death
The first computer bug, the story goes, was a moth squashed inside an old electromechanical computer. In Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, one such bug gets stuck in a printer, resulting in a typo that leads to the killing of poor innocent Archibald Buttle, a cobbler, rather than alleged terrorist Archibald Tuttle. Such is the oppressive bureaucracy…
