Director Alex Garland’s Men will leave you shaken.
is often arresting in its brutality as it spins a stomach-turning tale about the multifaceted monster that misogyny truly is. Butstruggles to keep its messages and all their headiness in focus largely because of its frustrating obsession with making you question just how much of its otherworldliness is real.tells the story of Harper Marlowe , a young widow who takes off to the English countryside for a solitary retreat following her husband James’ unexpected and grisly death by suicide.
That feeling of being stuck and harmed by someone’s emotional violence even after they’ve died is one of the first manifestations of the malevolent entity thatillustrates that, while Harper’s trip is something she wants to do for herself, most everyone she interacts with — save for her friend Riley — readily presumes that she’s traveling with a man because she couldn’t possibly have the desire to get out on her own.
The strange energy that each of Kinnear’s different characters has occasionally plays as enigmatic becausedoesn’t really clue you in to all that much about who they are outside of the fact that, in different ways, they all have bones to pick with women. Geoffrey’s simpering, emotional stuntedness may make it difficult for, say, the village’s priest or barkeep to see much of themselves in him.
, where you were partially meant to be horrified because of how awful all of its seemingly “good” men truly were,leaves little room for questioning how each of its titular characters is an existential threat to Harper.’s final acts is genuinely mind-boggling and fucked up in ways that make you appreciate Garland for being willing to go there.
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