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Films: A Real Pain and The Brutalist 

I didn't know a ton about either film, so I inadvertently had a Jewish film weekend...I'm glad I watched both, and the highlight for me was surely the first half of the Brutalist.

A Real Pain felt super thin - one might say - nothing happened. Too linear. I could contextualize it another way. I wouldn't go on a tour for vacation and the film is about going on a tour. The "big reveal" was not much of one. 

Brutalist was brilliant, ambitious, uplifting until the 3rd act turned into misery porn. What is misery porn? Art that supposedly has great ambitions but in the end can land on cliche that everything really sucks. You can only put so much lipstick on that pig.