The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, 2024) • Page 6

i went pee

 

I tried to pee but the line was absurd so I decided to hold it

 

Intermission right now. Apparently we are on a boil water notice so they tried to not refill my soda.

 

I think I was the only one that knew there was an intermission so I made it to the bathroom first and when I was leaving the line was crazy. I’m so good at going to the bathroom.

 

It's hard to judge a film halfway through but so far it is very technically accomplished but a lot is going to shift with the family coming to town.

 

Same! Went for a pee first then got a bottle of water afterwards!

 

now there’s a picture

 

thought the second half was incredible idk what yall were on about

 

That last half hour is definitely something. For a three and a half hour movie it felt rushed.

 

feels like a companion piece with the zone of interest

 

this took me from zero interest to wanting to see it

 

idk why you would have zero interest but okay

 

yeah this is in my top 3 right now for 2024 movies

 

third for me right now but still need to see a few

 

I think probably third behind nickel boys and sing sing. Maybe 4th if I put Anora above it.

 

yeah sing sing and anora are the two above it for me, haven't seen nickel boys yet

 

It’s my number 1

 

Still need to see Sing Sing, as well as The Beast and Evil Does Not Exist

 

Tried to catch this yesterday with a friend but couldn't get the 3 hour run time and limited screenings work with our dinner plans. Ended up seeing Anora again, will try and catch this next week when I'm back in Sydney. Still no sign of Nickel Boys

 

Nickel Boys should come before work, family, and religion.

 

Don't worry I'm not doing any of that until it gets released

 

i’ll tell my daughter

 

I wanted to give it some time because a film of this scope deserves it. It's a very good movie but that rape scene and the way it helps to clean up so much of the conflict is the biggest flaw.

We know that the parasitic capitalist class hates the artist because they can never be them. The conservative sphere is full of failed actors and screenwriters. The rich love to fill their homes with paintings and books without engaging in them at all. It is a little film school level to make that connection, and perhaps more importantly, it was already heavily implied that the son did something to Zsofia.

Of course, this leads to more erratic behavior from Lazlo, but the wife's pain, heroin use, overdose, and revival seems to shake him up in a way nothing else would. Cut forward from the confrontation and implied suicide of Van Buren and we find out it all got finished offscreen! Who paid for this? Van Buren's children? The town? It's all a little bizarre.

The portion with the marble in Italy was so beautiful but it seemed like it was going to come to some sort of violent confrontation. I thought one would throw the other off a cliff.

 

i did not get the implication van buren kills himself but rather disappears

I did have an issue with it getting finished seemingly 15 years later with no word on the details as to why. i guess you can presume perhaps it is due to the daughter since the movie presents her as the sole good person within her family but that is leading the viewer to fill gaps the filmmaker should have.

 

To he clear, though, it is still a very good movie. I'm looking forward to what he does next and I will have to go back and watch Vox Lux.