Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell depicts a dystopia in which it is wrong to love; which Winston then uses as a method of rebellion as he forms a romantic relationship with Julia, a more hidden rebel. When Winston and Julia were intimate, Winston reveals: “Their embrace was a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow to the Party. It was a political act” (Orwell 126). Although the sexual act is shown to bring couples closer together, Winston reveals that this is not the case for him, for him it is simply an act of upheaval towards the Party. Similarly, Gilliam's film, Brazil also shows a similar act of love as Sam Lowry dreams of falling in love with a girl, who we later know as Jill Layton. Towards the end of the film, the audience sees that Sam and Jill are captured by government officials while lying together (Gilliam), an act of rebellion similar to Winston's. It becomes clear that the right to express oneself through acts of love is considered the ultimate act of insurrection within these dystopias. The real world is no exception to this. As Atilano proves in Garcia's article, he does everything possible to be able to appear as a hero in the eyes of his family: "I wondered about the process of overcoming the fear of death for the common good . "When does someone decide that life becomes secondary to a