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May 26, 2022 · Viewers are looking to explain the ending of Men, Alex Garland’s heavily symbolic follow-up to Annihilation and Ex Machina.
- Tasha Robinson
Men: Directed by Alex Garland. With Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Paapa Essiedu, Gayle Rankin. A young woman goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside following the death of her ex-husband.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Alex Garland
- 2022-05-20
Civil War is a 2024 dystopian thriller film [6] written and directed by Alex Garland, starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, and Nick Offerman.
- But First: The Man
- All The Gory Allegories
- “What Is It That You Want?”
- What to Make of This Ending?
“Men” opens with a fragment of a scene that the film will return to several times: a bloody-nosed Harper and her husband James (Paapa Essiedu), mid-argument, bathed in intense orange light. Later, we learn that Harper has just told James she wants a divorce after about one year of marriage. He tries several tactics to get her to change her mind – b...
If the first key to understanding the ending is Harper’s individual story, the second is how it fits into a bigger picture of patriarchal violence. “Men” is full of allusions to original sin, the idea that every person carries on the transgression committed by Adam and Eve when Eve ate forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. This becomes literal whe...
After Harper tries to flee the house, she accidentally hits Geoffrey with her car. He then overtakes the car and chases her back to the front yard. Cue the most flagrantly bizarre sequence of the film: the naked prowler man grows an enormous belly, a vagina opens up and he gives birth to himself, over and over again. Each of the slimy beings crawls...
One interpretation is that James’ demand for Harper’s unconditional love and forgiveness – without taking accountability for his own behavior – is infantile in nature. Rather than treat his partner as an equal, James is driven solely by his own needs, similar to a baby’s relationship with its mother. That dynamic is visually represented by the “men...
May 21, 2022 · The end of Alex Garland’s Men is one hell of a thing to witness on the big screen. It’s nauseating and terrifying, but also a fascinating execution of body horror made with extraordinary...
Men is a 2022 British folk horror [4] film written and directed by Alex Garland. It stars Jessie Buckley as a widowed woman who travels on holiday to a countryside village but becomes disturbed and tormented by the strange men in the village, all portrayed by Rory Kinnear .
May 20, 2022 · If you just finished watching Alex Garland’s new folk-horror film “Men,” you might need a little time to process it. At least that’s what Garland hopes.
