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the brutalist now Allan you haven't seen
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the whole thing but you're still free to
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comment okay uh here it is a three and a
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half hour epic directed by Brady Corbett
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who was an actor who made he made a film
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with Natalie Portman years ago called
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Vox Lux in 2018 that was strange and
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worth seeing about a pop star so
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he he really shoots for the fences in
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this movie this is a lowbudget film
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which is shocking I could not have
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guessed the budget for this movie was 10
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million it's it's an epic period pieced
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piece about uh Adrien Brody's
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character is an architect that
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specializes in brutalist uh architecture
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and buildings they're they're some
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they're at times Stark and modern and
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very it's a it's a kind of a
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architecture that became popular in
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Washington DC he plays llo Toth uh in
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the film and it's a three and a half
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hour movie with an intermission a
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15minute intermission is part of it well
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maybe four hours with the intermission
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and the intermission has a countdown
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clock so you can prepare for that in the
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first half of the movie last llo meets
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through a series of through a strange
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circumstance he meets guy Pierce's
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character who is a rich philanthropist
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who wants llo to design a building as a
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tribute to his mother a big Cathedral if
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you will a community center that this
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architectural project is beyond anything
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imaginable in terms of its scope in
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terms of how people will feel when they
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enter the building and llo doesn't even
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care about money he's all about
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designing something that will stand the
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test of time that will impact people in
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a in a meaningful way and Guy Pierce is
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the uh rich person funding this
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project um we see the development of it
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uh a Adrian Brody's character llo Toth
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is an immigrant escaping post-war Europe
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and it's it's about this struggle
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between I I would say what it's really
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about is about art and
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money that is what this film is really
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dealing with you know through the lens
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of an architect right who is all about
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the art you know the project goes over
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budget they're making cuts to it he he's
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he he um llo you know forfeits his fee
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to make sure it's that this building is
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made in the most you know perfect way
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possible things are complicated in the
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second act so there is an intermission
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which it it needs it and um I
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appreciated that so and then his wife
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played by Felicity Jones AET to comes
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into the picture in the second
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half uh and of course things don't go
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with building creating this
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building this movie is epic this movie
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Shoots for the fences it has one of the
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best scores of the year but I'll say
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that some because of the running time
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will say that the uh brutalist running
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time is brutal and I would have to agree
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have this but this is also the kind of
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that that um shoots for the fenes fences
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and I will say that the uh all the
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actors are really chewing the scenery in
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so I while I'm sitting here like I
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couldn't stop thinking about this movie
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I saw this movie weeks ago at the DGA
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where there was a Q&A and the Q&A is on
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our uh members only Channel and um I
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couldn't I didn't know whether I it's
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one of those movies where I finished
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watching it and I'm like I don't know if
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I don't know if I like it and you know
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what since then I am still thinking
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about this movie and there's something
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that happens in the second act that is
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shocking with ramification that is so
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shocking you can't believe the movie did
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this I was angry and I'm still thinking
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about what happened did you get to the
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second half I got five minutes in and
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like I said I felt really sick and I
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couldn't and let me tell you about let
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me tell you about I thought I thought
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you watched it no I said I okay whatever
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it's fine but let me I I'll tell you
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this the the first five minutes though
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I'm listening to you describ this form
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film the first five minutes felt like it
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was a holocaust movie or or leading up
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to the Holocaust it's not it's not at
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all zero it's it's about the first five
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minutes of the movie it's about a
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European immigrant escaping the war and
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try to make a go in the US I I I I don't
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know that this need needed to be 4 hours
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I hate to say the running time
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especially the second half is such a
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turn I it needed that intermission I
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mean could you make a two-hour movie
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with an intermission or chapter one
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chapter two whatever um well he does a
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director sorry just to interrup the he
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does a director's and director's
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interview about this and he talks about
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a three-hour movie he goes well why does
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superhero films get three-hour movies
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why can't right right look I but I'll
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say this I I I'm still thinking about
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this film it's one of those movies that
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you see and and also even the graphic
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design the title sequence I'm a huge
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font like nerd right I love weird fonts
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and um I could talk to you about
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helvetica Times New Roman
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impact the title sequence for this movie
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is brilliant it does it it's a very
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different type of title sequence so um
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well I'm gonna have to see the movie I
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I'll just say this I I recommend this
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movie a bare recommend if you are like
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movies that challenge your sensibilities
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there's a shocking thing that happens in
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the second act that I don't agree with
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that I thought was was beyond the pale
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um and said everything in motion towards
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climax but it's one of the most
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compelling movies of the year I like
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movies that take risks the fact that
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this was made for 10 million the movie's
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an epic the movie is an epic they must
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have used I couldn't tell they must have
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used models somehow you see them
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building this structure it's amazing um
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the cinematography incredible the music
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amazing the things like the attention to
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detail detail and design Adrien Brody's
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performance so much of this movie is
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just topnotch and the fact that I saw it
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and I can't stop thinking about this
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movie makes me want to see it again and
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discuss it with you Allan we will
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revisit it once you've seen it let's go
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to com probably at our best of uh show
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yeah well yes we but but um I recommend
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it only if you like movies that are
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challenging that are for hours yeah okay
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and I'll just say I'm blown away that
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it's $10 million and that should say
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something to Hollywood yeah so recommend
