Amazon Prime film - "Men"

[FindingMeno]

WTAF?

I think I read a review of this in Empire magazine. Is this the one where one male actor plays all the male characters that the female lead comes across? Is it Jessie Buckley?

Is it WTaF good or just weird?

Saw this a few weeks ago.

@RoachTheHorse yes Rory Kinnear is the actor playing all the men. I was really hopeful with this given that it’s an Alex Garland film and it did start off promising but yeah I think WTAF pretty much sums it up. DH and I spent the last 30 mins looking at each other and wondering what the fuck we were watching. I had a stab at making sense of it at the end and DH was like there’s literally no point, don’t even go there!

I might give it a try then I can join in not making sense of it 🤣

I loved it! Gotta admire a film where the answer to NAMALT is “Actually, yes, they are”.
The end was a weird combination of Cronenbergian body horror and psychological denouement, and was the weak point for me (although I got the aim of it - Toxic Masculinity endlessly reproducing itself). The little boy in the churchyard thing didn’t really work as it was more like an Aphex Twin video and would have more effect with an ordinary child, not a superimposed Rory Kinnear.

Some of the scenes were like a punch in the stomach I.e. a calming walk in the countryside that turns menacing when she draws the attention of one of the Men….the creepy vicar…..the blank face of the policeman who just won’t understand why she is bothered that they’ve let her attacker go….
Stunning cinematography and not afraid to leave scenes long enough for them to really sink in.
The question of whether all Men just seem the same to Harper or whether they are all the same is left neatly ambiguous.
Misogyny can only ever produce more of the same, whilst women are the true bringers of life.
Jessie Buckley wrote some of the dialogue and Rory Kinnear is magnificent in it - although sometimes hard to shake off Michael in Count Arthur Strong saying “But I’m a nice man!” .

@Saucery bang on with the school boy being like something from an Aphex Twin video! 😂

DH and I also thought it had a distinct air of League of Gentleman about it and actually I could have just as easily seen Reece Shearsmith playing the Men too. Although Rory Kinnear was very very good.

I think it would have been much more effective to cast a boy who looks like a young RK, give him voice and mannerism training to emphasise the fact he was one of the Men. But I’m being picky as the rest of the film blew me away. When you’re female, Remote Idyllic Retreat can swiftly turn into a nightmare, thanks to men. The joy of singing to hear your own echo in an abandoned industrial landscape turning on a sixpence when you realise you haven’t got away from the relentless scrutiny and anger like you’d hoped. I think Jessie Buckley gets that across perfectly, trying to squash her panic down while telling herself not to be silly, the worst has already happened to her so what else can go wrong?