No one would have expected the latest series from Men, the shocking and fantastic new film by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation). Let’s go back to the last scene of the horror feature film and what it means. Warning, spoilers.
Warning, spoilers. The following paragraphs show the plot elements from the end of the movie “Men”. If you do not want to understand anything, do not read.
Then Ex Machina And DestructionDirector Alex Garland Returns with a shocking new film he is conducting Jesse Buckley And Rory Kinnear. Currently in cinemas Men Followed by the traumatic experience of Harper, a woman who went into solitary confinement in England to rebuild herself after a personal tragedy.
But a strange presence haunts him in this peaceful little village, and the violent memories of Harper (Jesse Buckley) come to the surface and transform what was once a time of peace and endurance into a real nightmare.
Along with men, Alex Garland offers a shocking and visually new cinematic experience between body horrors and psychological drama, calling on symbols, metaphors and legends mixed with horror and fantasy to explore the relationship of violence between men and women.
For its part, the film moves from fantasy to humor and drama to an insane last action that no one could have expected, which removes the ban on children under the age of 12 with a warning in the cinema. Indeed, after insulting and attacking several men or an archetype of men of the same type (Rory Kinnear), Harper witnessed a stunning and visually influential scene.
Man multiplies evil
He sees a green man, the first man from the forest who has abused him trying to break into a house, it all takes its various threatening forms (policeman, child or priest). But Harper manages to defend himself and the attacker attacks and wounds him.
That’s when the weakened man ends up falling to the ground and giving birth to another man like him. Which also produces another person with the same appearance. And so on, sometimes with incredible vaginal openings. Every new person that is born is weaker, wicked, grotesque.
Before the latter was James (Paapa Esiedu), Harper’s ex-husband, who was an abusive husband to her and committed suicide after a violent family dispute. When Harper asks her what she wants from him, he simply replies “Your love”.
An infantile and pathetic request that only meets his needs, without the consent of the partner or taking into account the needs and desires, which he protests as a mother and caregiver who must bring him unconditional love, who is also looking for men who were to follow him.
And this notion of misogyny, manifested in these various types of men through symbolism and other biblical figures, seems to be a way for Alex Garland to overturn the established codes and preconditions according to which a woman’s original sin came. The idea that every woman carries Eve’s sins inside her (with the image of an apple we see in the film) is thus criticized with a completely different question.
The men then took with them their own sins of violence and virginity, the relics of a patriarchal society. And that these qualities will be inherent in their being as they are constantly multiplied from birth in the film. The male was multiplying evil. There is such a terrible and miserable evil in front of Harper.
While it is unclear what the outcome of this recent exchange between Harper and James is, we have since found ourselves on the post-credit scene alone, calm and relieved of the weight of an old toxic relationship.
After the title card “MEN”, Harper is joined by his friend Riley (Gail Rankin), with whom he had previously contacted by phone. When Riley arrives, he sees only damage and a liter of blood on the ground. This proves that all the traumatic events that Harper experienced are real and that he survived.
Alex Garland said this post-credit scene should have included dialogue at first, but he eventually cut it. The director revealed this during a question-and-answer session in New York (via Polygon): “The dialogue next to the smile seemed superfluous.”
In any case, Alex Garland refuses to comment too much on his film in order not to spoil the public experience: “It all becomes a bit psychoanalytic if I talk about it too much. I think it might get in the way. In this particular film, I basically wanted to take a step back because the whole idea of the film is to open up. For different interpretations.”
Men’s trailer in theaters on June 8:
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