The Brutalist 4K 2024

This is a movie that won the prestigious Golden Globe Awards and was nominated in ten Oscar categories. A movie that will tell us the hard story of an architect who went through a concentration camp and emigrated to America from post-war Europe. However, the hardships will not end there and life will still present the poor architect with terrible surprises.

The movie lasts three and a half hours. And it should be noted that it is one of the most boring films I have seen lately. It is a long and torturous narrative in which we will be forced to look at the pain and suffering of an immigrant of Jewish-Hungarian descent who believed in the American dream, except that it didn't believe in him. To be more precise, people are at first interested in him and participate in his life in every possible way, helping him, but after a while they suddenly not only stop participating, but, in fact, begin to just mock him (and, of course, how to do without the now customary in Hollywood “sexual tininess”, let's call it that). By the way, this transition, so to speak, from love to hate, is not shown in any way. The movie is not at all interested in revealing and developing the characters. Because of this, the characters are simply uninteresting. When you find out that this is not a biography, but fictional images and stories (albeit based on real fragments), it becomes quite sad and you don't feel any relation to the main character.

This is an insanely tedious and boring movie with very decent camerawork and good acting by the actors. But plotwise, grasping for some important themes, jumping from the Holocaust to the American dream, from love and art to drugs and rape, the movie slides into some platitudes that do not cause reflection in the viewer.

In my opinion, a highly overrated movie that will probably take its statuettes, but not rightfully so at all.