Thought I would enjoy but was actually really boring
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The Brutalist 2024
Sickening Oscar bait, not unlike Conclave.
Best part for me was when Brody (The Brutalist) upbraids some other guy for being the source of “everything cruel and ugly.” As if brutalist architecture doesn’t cruelly impose its inherent ugliness on every public space it forces its way into.
Like is the film aware of how garish the aesthetics of its central project are? It seems like it is for a second when it cuts between beautiful architectural flourishes in Venice (to…
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Conclave 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
You can tell the studio had a democrat winning the election in mind when they made this lol.
After passing up on electing the diversity hire pope and the lib pope (apparently there’s a cardinal that is just an establishment Democrat), we’re meant to understand that we can’t elect the tradcath pope because he supports deporting radical Islamic terrorists from Europe so we must instead elect the even more lib intersex Mexican from Afghanistan pope that no one has even heard of until 5 minutes ago.
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