The Brutalist was an experience that aggressively inflicted me with such complicated and conflicting thoughts and emotions. I’m so glad that I allowed myself to reflect, digest and discuss it with other people before publicly sharing my knee-jerk reaction after initially feeling nearly insulted by it.
Even though The Brutalist is clearly an incredibly layered and dense film that has mountains of things to say, on and beneath the surface, about the perverse reality of the American dream for foreigners,…
