What if your passion in life made it onto the big screen and you noticed everything it got wrong?

The architecture world is currently experiencing this feeling, fuming at the liberties taken by Best Picture nominee The Brutalist. The film, a fictional epic tale that takes unsaid but blatant cues from the life of architect Marcel Breuer, seems to get everything about architecture wrong, from its depiction of brutalism's development to its incorporation of the Bauhaus to the architectural process itself.

Playing hard and fast with the finer details of realism has provoked takedowns, think pieces, and even an hour-long podcast called Why the Brutalist is a Terrible Movie, where writers from the world of architecture attempt to drive the nail into the film’s coffin.

But if I may be so bold, who cares what architects think of The Brutalist?

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The film intends to be a classic story of the American dream, its loose interpretation of Breuer’s life being mere canvas. If The Brutalist is fundamentally a story about architecture, then so too is something like Ayn Rand’s individualist maverick novel The Fountainhead. And it is obviously not. Breuer may not have used heroin or been quick to pivot to raging maniac in pursuit of greatness, but........

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