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Movie #5: A Preliminary Response to The Brutalist

Production of more art and beauty cannot serve as the only available response to art and beauty around us.

by Noah Keene | Jan 14, 2025 | 0 comments

You and I likely were taught the same things about masculinity growing up.

I’m homesick for a time when people were just people, not layers of complicated emotions and traumas and hopes and expectations.

We walked a lot of the year, including the winter.

I’ve gotten much better at enjoying things.

When I see these things in a real bookstore, I could be convinced there’s a conspiracy afoot.

But to me, endings have always been quiet.

You can’t predict the revolution based on a single incident—sorry TikTok astrology gurus.

While nearly everything we see is not reducible to merely perceptual phenomena, all of it is at a minimum a perceptual phenomena.

I’m feeling an invitation to linger a while longer in each moment, in each day, in each year.