It's fine and i know it's a tad unfair of me to expect this to be a subversive and thought provoking auteur piece, that has been unfairly maligned by contemporary critics, but i was a bit disappointed. Like the film is a lot better than what they'd have you believe at the time, but the social commentary is very thin. Like it's barely there. I guess it's still better to have very little of it than none at all. Megan…
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The Brutalist 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Superficial and suprisingly small. The historical context, and the characters (except of Andrien Brody's) had been drawn up in the broadest of strokes, i genuinely don't understand why they'd even bother. The film touches on segregation, homelessness, Israel, immigration but then just leaves all these threads dangling. Like can we elaborate on these? It's not like we're in a hurry. Corbert needs to escalate the already dire situations, to their breaking point, and to the point of unrelatability, to make…
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