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Nic's avatar

Re: charging for your content, I’m a paid subscriber cos I appreciate your work and I imagine it takes a lot of time and effort to produce. I don’t mind not having a different experience to non-payers.

Re: the brutalist. I still think about - still not sure what I made of it. Loved the vista vision sideways credits!!

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Nic, that’s brilliant. I do really want to take it all a bit more seriously - and people have told me it ought to do well. I set a personal target of 500 free subscribers before I started to paywall and I’m almost there so the time may have come! I’ll set you and the super-elite earlier paying subscribers with some kind of special status!

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The thesis - of which I am uncertain - is that the final scene of The Brutalist drops some important information that utterly alters our sense of the whole movie, rippling back through the narrative, turning the screenplay itself into an unreliable narrator. It’s fascinating and - once I started to think about it - kind of mind-bending…

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