The Brutalist

with all this money? 858 01:12:17,042 --> 01:12:20,125 They rambled on about miracles or some such thing. 859 01:12:20,208 --> 01:12:22,333 For a moment, everything in their immediate 860 01:12:22,417 --> 01:12:25,625 line of view seemed solvable, achievable. 861 01:12:26,500 --> 01:12:28,125 They would finally be all right and... 862 01:12:29,208 --> 01:12:31,792 what a thoughtful grandson I was. 863 01:12:33,375 --> 01:12:34,583 Upon departure... 864 01:12:36,625 --> 01:12:38,833 before I even reached the edge of their front lawn, 865 01:12:38,917 --> 01:12:41,625 the two of them came running out after me, shouting. 866 01:12:43,500 --> 01:12:45,500 "You've forgotten your signature, Harrison." 867 01:12:48,333 --> 01:12:49,958 I summoned the courage to be frank 868 01:12:50,042 --> 01:12:51,750 and to speak to them as adults. 869 01:12:51,833 --> 01:12:54,250 I had not forgotten, I said, 870 01:12:54,333 --> 01:12:56,333 but was not ultimately compelled to sign 871 01:12:56,417 --> 01:12:58,500 due to the blunder of their response. 872 01:13:03,417 --> 01:13:05,292 They took it as such a shock. 873 01:13:05,375 --> 01:13:07,000 I thought for a moment it might kill them 874 01:13:07,083 --> 01:13:08,292 right there on their front lawn. 875 01:13:08,375 --> 01:13:11,542 But the two of them just wept and came apart like beggars. 876 01:13:11,625 --> 01:13:15,125 The whole thing was so much more disturbing 877 01:13:15,208 --> 01:13:16,375 than I'd imagined. 878 01:13:19,125 --> 01:13:20,458 And so on condition... 879 01:13:22,542 --> 01:13:24,625 that they let Margaret alone from then on... 880 01:13:26,125 --> 01:13:27,667 I struck them a separate check 881 01:13:27,750 --> 01:13:29,500 for $500 and I signed. 882 01:13:32,250 --> 01:13:35,583 That is how much I loved my mother, Mr. Tóth. 883 01:13:36,875 --> 01:13:38,625 We did things for each other. 884 01:13:39,500 --> 01:13:41,042 What could they expect 885 01:13:41,125 --> 01:13:43,167 after the way they had treated you both? 886 01:13:43,250 --> 01:13:45,958 Yes, yes, that's exactly how I see it. 887 01:13:46,042 --> 01:13:47,833 Answer me something. 888 01:13:48,917 --> 01:13:51,083 Why architecture? 889 01:13:54,625 --> 01:13:55,917 Is it a test? 890 01:13:57,917 --> 01:13:59,083 No, it is not. 891 01:14:08,458 --> 01:14:12,417 Nothing is of its own explanation. 892 01:14:18,750 --> 01:14:21,667 Is there a better description of a cube 893 01:14:21,750 --> 01:14:24,042 than that of its construction? 894 01:14:27,208 --> 01:14:29,333 There was a war on. 895 01:14:29,417 --> 01:14:30,542 And yet... 896 01:14:31,833 --> 01:14:33,417 it is my understanding that... 897 01:14:35,875 --> 01:14:39,208 many of the sites of my projects have survived. 898 01:14:40,458 --> 01:14:43,875 They remain there still in the city. 899 01:14:47,958 --> 01:14:50,042 When the terrible recollections 900 01:14:50,125 --> 01:14:53,333 of what happened in Europe cease to humiliate us... 901 01:14:55,083 --> 01:14:57,417 I expect for them to serve 902 01:14:57,500 --> 01:15:00,083 instead as a political stimulus, 903 01:15:01,208 --> 01:15:04,542 sparking the upheavals that so frequently occur 904 01:15:04,625 --> 01:15:07,708 in the cycles of people hood. 905 01:15:17,375 --> 01:15:18,917 I already anticipate 906 01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:23,500 a communal rhetoric of anger and fear. 907 01:15:26,583 --> 01:15:31,667 A whole river of such frivolities may flow undammed. 908 01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:42,000 But my buildings were devised to endure such erosion 909 01:15:42,083 --> 01:15:43,875 of the Danube's shoreline. 910 01:15:49,583 --> 01:15:51,542 What a poetic reply. 911 01:15:54,500 --> 01:15:56,667 You must have been a beloved professor. 912 01:16:00,250 --> 01:16:01,333 I've said it before, 913 01:16:01,417 --> 01:16:03,250 but I find our conversations... 914 01:16:04,958 --> 01:16:06,917 intellectually stimulating. 915 01:16:08,750 --> 01:16:10,625 I agree with you. 916 01:16:15,042 --> 01:16:17,458 Everyone, please. 917 01:16:18,750 --> 01:16:21,500 Take your brandy and join me outside. 918 01:16:22,833 --> 01:16:24,333 I have a terrific surprise. 919 01:16:30,375 --> 01:16:32,625 Where the hell are you taking us, Harrison? 920 01:16:32,708 --> 01:16:33,875 It's freezing out here. 921 01:16:33,958 --> 01:16:35,958 Just try doing this in heels, Michael. 922 01:16:46,667 --> 01:16:49,333 Only a little further. Come on. 923 01:16:53,500 --> 01:16:55,333 Bear with us, everyone. 924 01:16:57,667 --> 01:16:59,792 Hold your horses, we're almost there. 925 01:17:24,708 --> 01:17:25,708 All right. 926 01:17:27,667 --> 01:17:29,333 As many of you know, 927 01:17:29,417 --> 01:17:32,417 this... this past year has been somewhat difficult 928 01:17:32,500 --> 01:17:34,917 for Har