In Celebration of Concrete

I stumbled upon this exhibit this week while at the Met. If you happen to be in NYC, I thought it was worth catching. Lots of great drawings and models.

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-materialized-space-the-architecture-of-paul-rudolph/exhibition-objects

Today

Are there any good products or information on what route to take to replace the traditional siding on an existing home to resemble more of a black concrete look?

This movie called The Brutalist was showing in theaters near me so I decided to go watch it, as someone who knows next to nothing about architecture. I thought the movie was great but despite being 4 hours long about an architect building a big huge project, it felt like we never got a good view of the project and the other architecture he built wasn't that amazing to me, is my taste just really bad? Most of the architecture in the movie wasn't that impressive compared tp other stuff Ive seen, I have done some searches of brutalist architecture from the 50s or earlier and found stuff that was more eye popping to me than anything in the movie, and just scrolling this sub for a few mins before posting I saw a lot of very aesthetically pleasing stuff that I highly enjoyed (though of course most of that is more modern architecture), so I don't think it's that I'm not a fan of the style of brutalism. What do you guys think of the architecture in the movie? I think my favorite piece was probably the library they made toward the start, I guess, but there was something about the curtains that I didn't really like for whatever reason.

Any takes on the architectural processes, thinking, realism/accuracy of any sort, etc are appreciated too, as again, I know nothing of the subject. I always find that I view movies based around subjects I know a thing or two about very differently than I would otherwise. I have friends who are martial artists and who absolutely loathe quite a few action movies I enjoy, whereas I have that sentiment toward movies about other subjects which they enjoy. I suppise in most cases, even brilliant filmmakers are missing experience, nuance, and knowledge about subjects they make movies on, so viewers who know too much about the subjects can get taken out of it. I have seen people on other architecture subs say they very much enjoyed it, which is great, but I wanted to know what people here think.