“Unveiling the Allure: Why Brutalism Captivates Yet Confounds Modern Design”
However, interestingly enough, it does not come with stakes or urgency. We eventually come to realize that it doesn’t matter if Laszlo finishes the building or not. There’s nothing else dependent on him finishing it. He even waives his salary for some reason. So it’s not like he has to finish it to get the money.
And there’s no time when it needs to be finished by. Typically in a movie, you want urgency because urgency creates pressure. And pressure creates drama. But I’ve found that true “auteurs” hate urgency. They think of it as artificial, which I get. But there’s always a way to add urgency invisibly. It doesn’t have to feel like Taken, where it’s a hard 72 hours before his daughter disappears forever.
