the brutalist is just a "white people bad" holocaust movie,
I was loosing my mind during it, all white people depicted? bad. All minorities? Good. Gay rape for no reason? Yes.
The Holocaust swaps in a new villain to suit the times. Very flexible story.
Originally, madman Hitler and his henchmen had entranced the Germans and led them to monstrosity. That fit the '60s and '70s, when so many seemingly normal people in the West were enthralled by cults.
Later it broadened: The average German (or Pole) was (and is) a congenital murderer whose nature was expressed in Hitler. He was their libido, their "monster from the id." It was just like the terrifying Reagan landslide that ushered in American fascism (remember?).
Hitler's Willing Executioners pop-academicized the idea.
The Painted Bird was an early fictionalization of it. In it, literal nazis are kinder to Jews than the average rural European is (no country named, because it's not
just the Germans). The author initially lied and called it an autobiography. As they do.
Now, as seen in
The Brutalist, in the latest Ken Burns doc, etc., the Holocaust was done by
whiteness—specifically the Allied whiteness that denied some Jews refuge in Britain and America. My grandma got in, and a bunch of famous scientists, and basically every academic Marxist outside of Russia, and etc.—but there was that
one boat. So fuck having borders and laws and shit (except for Jews).