A young woman named Harper heads off on a holiday into the English countryside following a traumatic experience with her husband. Haunted by the memories and carrying a lot of guilt, the strange men in the village all seem to look similar to Geoffrey the landlord who greeted her.
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Men is an utterly bizarre and quite frankly strange film from start to finish, that I totally did not get at all in any sense. Each scene that followed seemed to get more off the wall and made even less sense for any meaning to quite frankly anything.
As Harper arrives at the house that she has rented straight away yes it looks a bit creepy, especially for one person to be staying in. Secluded in the countryside is naturally a great setting for weird things to happen and horror like issues, but the film doesn’t really fully take either of those directions. Instead it tries to visually shock the viewers and it just did absolutely nothing at all for me.
We aren’t even fully sure if Harper’s husband committed suicide, but we slowly see flashbacks to how his behaviour towards her was horrible and she wanted to divorce him. Which if then the men in the film were linked better to that whole thing I might have got it a little bit more. Instead all of the men who looked very similar, but were different ages, sizes and professions became creepier and again were all rather horrid to Harper.
It seemed to just have way too many different attempts at horror and scares going on, even with the FaceTime connections being jumpy and bad attempting to show that someone else was controlling all of the situation as Harper’s friend Riley wants to help her and make sure she is safe. I mean was it all one giant metaphor for James controlling his wife? I seriously don’t even know.
I am a massive fan of Jessie Buckley and was very excited to see her leading another film, as it is exactly what she deserves to be doing! She still gets some interesting scenes is probably the best way to put it. Certainly wasn’t easy for Rory Kinnear who took on most of the other roles and quite frankly it was so strange, especially the young boy character that was damn right bizarre and even a little bit funny! I feel like Alex Garland is going to be one of those director/writers that I just don’t get as I wasn’t a fan of Ex Machina either.
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This was a truly horrible film and such a disappointment. The last twenty minutes with all that full-on gore was like… why? What was the point, other than to disgust the viewer? It didn’t seem to add anything to the narrative at all.
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I am so pleased you felt exactly the same way! I thought it was going to be more of a psychological horror, but nope it went down that mindless gore for no reason whatsoever.
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