Rob Silverman Ascher - Simpler and With More Laughter (Page 2)

A middle-aged white man stands on a mound of dirt, flanked by a white man in a long brown coat and a black man wearing jeans.

All the Way to Being Brutal

Brady Corbet’s postwar epic The Brutalist follows László Toth, a Jewish architect seeking refuge in post-war America, as he embarks on a building project for a mysterious Philadelphia benefactor and is reunited with his wife and niece. It’s a sensory-overload period piece, shot on the once-defunct Vistavision format,

Bertolt Brecht, a white, middle-aged man adjusts his glasses, with a cigar between the fingers on his right hand.

Simpler and With More Laughter

Hello and welcome to Simpler and With More Laughter! You're likely seeing this because you previously followed me on Substack. For a variety of reasons, I have migrated my writing from Substack to Ghost, the service you are reading on now. Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg has elucidated many of