In many of Terry Gilliam's works, there is a general feeling of confusion or disbelief. The audience usually feels lost and never realizes what is really happening until the end of the film. In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the audience experiences firsthand the hallucinations and turmoil of a man addicted to every drug he can find. In The Holy Grail, Life of Brian, and The Meaning of Life, the audience is exposed to horrific or socially horrible situations, but the characters react very nonchalantly, leaving the audience confused and worried. In Twelve Monkeys, the entire plot is questionable and the audience has a hard time believing the story, let alone understanding it. Throughout these films, Gilliam puts the viewer into a surreal state, leading them to question whether the events are truly real. In Gilliam's Monty Python films (Holy Grail, Life of Brian and Meaning of Life), he animates scenarios to move the plot. forward that leaves the audience saying “What! » In The Holy Grail, the first animation we see is that of God's face emerging from the sun and speaking to Sir Lancelot. The face is distorted and swollen – not a face one would immediately look at and associate with a Heavenly Father. Throughout the dialogue, God's puffy face speaks with an accent and vocabulary of your average peasant. Gilliam also uses very dreamlike animation sequences to accelerate the plot of Life of Brian. When Brian falls from a first-century building during a chase scene, Gilliam animates a bizarre, futuristic spaceship that catches Brian before he falls to his death. By distracting the audience from the current chase scene, Gilliam is able to end the chase without the audience realizing that it was never resolved. During...... middle of paper ......g digressions that cause viewers to get completely lost. By the end of the movie, we forget what the original purpose of going to Las Vegas was. Were they just going to stumble? Surely there must be a reason. No, that reason has long been lost. By the end of the film, we sober viewers feel so drugged that we want nothing more than to go home and calm down. Gilliam is talented in the sense that he can use the same dream themes, but in different ways. make the audience feel a wide range of emotions. In the Monty Python films, he makes audiences laugh at things that would be memorable in real life. In Fear and Loathing and Twelve Monkeys, Gilliam uses the same trippy techniques to make the audience feel frustrated, lost, or anxious. Regardless of the emotion produced, Gilliam frequently uses the bizarre to achieve the effect he needs..