What is fascism if not brutality and violence dressed up with the trappings of beauty, religion and credibility?
This is a strange film, whose specific late 19th/early 20th century Hungarian politics I would not presume to understand. But I clearly recognize the poetry on screen as it shows how confusing it is to live among and be seduced/ruled by fascists.
Religious leaders who loudly exclaim for peace and end up nothing more than supporters for murder and avarice? A lack of standard authority under the law? Celebrations conflated with conflagrations?
In this film, murder and violence are so common they barely register as an inhuman act. This is a vision of hell on earth.