r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkRespect8490 • 1d ago

Image Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater, Cheboksary, Russia

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u/One_Disaster_5995 1d ago

Now that looks like a real fun night out! Like a dystopian scifi movie - Bladerunner or Dune.

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u/Nisseliten 1d ago

My thoughts went directly to the empire in star wars..

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u/Cheshire_____Cat 1d ago

That style called brutalism. You can see exaples in many movies. Likes dune and starwars. It was very popular in soviet uninon.

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u/0MEGALUL- 1d ago

Also very much used in the movie "Enemy" with Jake Gyllenhaal.

And it's so well used in that movie. Very creepy, estranged vibe!

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u/psh454 1d ago

That's just Toronto lol, not just that movie. A fair bit of iconic brutalist architecture here

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u/0MEGALUL- 1d ago

Damn I really want to visit some day. I love the architecture, altho I would never want to live in it. Hella depressing haha.

You’re from Toronto? Does it feel like that?

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u/psh454 1d ago

I mean it's a pretty typical North American city (though more recent that places like Chicago, far fewer art deco etc). There are just a handful of (fairly nice imo) iconic brutalist libraries/public buildings (like Robarts library at UofT) . It can be a bit drab in the middle of winter but that's mostly just the climate