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20 mag 2022 · Harper ( Jessie Buckley) faces off against a series of men (all played by Rory Kinnear) at the too-idyllic-to-be-true country house she’s renting. After a succession of hallucinatory and violent ...
- Were The Men Harper Was Seeing Real?
- The Apple Tree & Its Importance Explained
- Why The Naked Man Chases Harper Throughout
- Why All The Men Give Birth to Different Versions of Themselves
- What Men’s Ending Really Means
Throughout Garland’s film, Harper interacts with several figures and it’s likely Geoffrey, Samuel, the police officer, and the Vicar are all real. However, once the story escalates and Harper realizes the naked man who was arrested has been released is when things get really trippy. At her rental holiday home, Harper is harassed and assaulted by al...
Garland’s film has a lot of religious imagery. When Harper first arrives at Geoffrey’s home, she picks an apple to eat after a long trip. Geoffrey’s immediate reaction is to tell her she shouldn’t have taken the “forbidden fruit”, then implies it is a joke. The apple tree is a focus throughout Men. It is meant to signify Eden and Eve’s original sin...
Harper Marlowe is haunted — by her husband’s death and by the blame lobbied at her. The naked man, who transforms throughout Menis a representation of these feelings she can’t shake, images and memories of James’ death that follow her around, and the way in which the other characters often make her feel guilt for something Harper has no part in. Th...
The body horror is one of the most gruesome things about Men. Geoffrey giving birth to the naked man, James, and a handful of others suggests the cycle of trauma inflicted on women by men is generational and seemingly never-ending. Each man in the film blamed Harper for something they did or felt — James employed emotional abuse to make Harper feel...
Men’s ending is layered, but also not definitive in its interpretation. Harper has been accused of pushing all these men to commit acts they supposedly would not have if not for her; they are also accusations she claims she doesn’t feel guilty about throughout the film. However, the fact she is being haunted by this blame suggests she thinks about ...
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9 feb 2022 · Men - Un film di Alex Garland. La mascolinità tossica rielaborata sotto forma di allegoria folk-horror nella campagna britannica. Con Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Paapa Essiedu, Gayle Rankin, Sarah Twomey. Drammatico, , 2022. Durata 100 min. Consigli per la visione V.M. 14.
Men is a 2022 British folk horror 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 .
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But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her. What begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears in visionary filmmaker Alex Garland's (Ex Machina, Annihilation) feverish, shape-shifting new horror film.
What begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears in visionary filmmaker Alex Garland's (Ex Machina, Annihilation) feverish, shape ...
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20 mag 2022 · 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.
