Guy Pearce breaks down Van Buren's mysterious fate at the end of 'The Brutalist': 'It was brilliant'

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Brady Corbet's three-and-a-half-hour epic "The Brutalist" is filled with eye-popping visuals and moving sequences as it chronicles the life of László Tóth (Adrien Brody), a Hungarian Jew who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to post-World War II America. It all leads to a shocking end centered around Guy Pearce's character, the bombastic wealthy industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren.