i mean to ask jay and robin about the brutalist today. i read about it on screen slate. i had a feeling it would not be anti-genocidal. the architects who fled nazi germany and settled in palestine built their buildings on palestinian land taken in the nakba of 1948.

 

Whatever power The Brutalist summons in its rags-to-perhaps-Zionism story is blunted by the unwillingness of its story to actually end where it leads. The film freely depicts the destruction of heroin addiction, the hidden cost of creative patronage, and how love is sustenance and wounds either heal or fester with time. But with Zionism, Corbet and Fastvold prove unable to even intimate the horrible truth to which it amounts: that the victims of the Nazi Holocaust, and even those further subject to American abuses of capitalist exploitation might be capable of perpetrating the same crimes against someone else.

Noah Kulwin, 

About the Destination: The Brutalist and Israel