MEN (2022) Review
The latest film to be directed by Alex Garland, director of highly acclaimed films Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018).
The film follows the character Harper, a young woman who escapes to a country cottage after the death of her husband after he physically assaults her. While she vacationing, she has a multitude of experiences with men and boys that treat her disgustingly.
This film was very curious from its preview trailer which gave almost nothing of the story away, so it’s no surprise that just by the title alone, it’s obvious the film has something negative to do with, yep, you guessed it - men.
The film is creepy and has some very shocking scenes involving a nude man following Harper around the cottage and also a scene where a priest blames her for her husband being killed.
It plays perfectly into the tired idea of male malevolence that feminist and mainstream propaganda would use circa 2016 to label all men “dangerous” and “toxic”.
Though the film has it interesting moments, it’s nothing but a shocking and provocative tale of a woman surrounded by questionable males with questionable intentions with a run time of 100 minutes that is seven years late in relevance.
Not a bad film, just another morbidly incorrect take on the idea that men are nothing but monsters whose apparent only purpose in life is to pursue, harass, invade, interrupt, and impose on women.
If anything, I’d recommend going into this movie understanding it’s a story for a certain kind of audience, looking to provoke and satisfy the “I blame all men” urges of both men and women who have fallen deep into the nastiest parts of misandrist feminist ideology.
3/5
