The Brutalist (2024) Stream Rent

[iamwhatiseem]

First, be forewarned - the movie is 3 and a half hours long.
And at about 2 hours in, you will likely find yourself wanting the film to get going. Is something ever going to happen? Besides misery for the lead character? And random people popping in and out?
It is one of those movies where a LOT is going on. But nothing is really happening. No problems are getting solved. Just a cascade of more problems. And it wears on you. And yes, I do get that this is the point. But - does anyone really want to watch a movie where there is nothing satisfying about it?
Yeah, Adriene Brody is a very good actor. And it is enjoyable watching him do it. But not for 3 1/2 hours.

I want to say this is a good movie. I mean, it is. But then it isn't, because half the time you are not even sure what the point is. Other than this guy is miserable. And so is everyone else. There is not one single person in this movie that is not absolutely miserable.

Me? - I say skip it. I don't care how many awards it gets.

 

[odanny]

Yea, I heard he won an Academy Award and gave a speech as long as the movie. I loved him "The Pianist", another depressing tale, but when a Jew is hiding from the Nazis you expect that.

 

[Failzero]

I liked it and think it was kinda historic in its layout , I did not get the Male on Male Rape scene until the Wife crashes the party and called out the Billionaire on it in front of his family ( and it made since knowing the actor thst played him then )

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I liked it and think it was kinda historic in its layout , I did not get the Male on Male Rape scene until the Wife crashes the party and called out the Billionaire on it in front of his family ( and it made since knowing the actor thst played him then )

Yes! - where the hell did that scene come from?
My guess is it was "artistically symbolic" of the have nots "getting fucked" by the have's.
But it did not belong in the movie, IMO.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Yea, I heard he won an Academy Award and gave a speech as long as the movie. I loved him "The Pianist", another depressing tale, but when a Jew is hiding from the Nazis you expect that.

The Pianist was an entirely different movie, and 11 times better than this one.
The Pianist, like this movie, spends a lot of time in misery. As that character also had one despair after another and another - BUT - it was followed by small victories, and moments of exquisite beauty. And the movie ends victoriously.
This movie just ended. After the wife exposes him, the guy just disappears. And never to be explained where did he go. And all of the greatness the man achieves, the victory over the oppression - we do not get to see it. They just "FFWD" 30 years with a brief, unsatisfying, scene of a dedication to him by his grand niece.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

It seems to me they wanted an Epic. But it didn't get there.
They picked the right story, they picked the right actors. They picked a good locale to make the movie, the scenery is...decent. But they failed to tell the story.