The Brutalist is as much a film about Zsófia as it is about Lázló.
The decision to begin and end the film with Zsófia, particularly the ending line - "It is the destination, not the journey" - has been something that left a lot of questions after my first viewing. After my second viewing, it had an obsessive hold over me.
The Brutalist is about more than a single sentence can state, yet the main themes of the American Dream,…