Excuse me, WTF was that ?

Someone on Reddit said it the best: Men is simultaneously the most subtle yet heaviest handed art house film of recent memory. It somehow manages to have multiple layers of depth while being annoyingly simplistic with its message. Much to muse on that might coax a second viewing from me to fully appreciate, but the divisive message and trademark Garland weirdness might be too high a barrier for some entrants.

I'm pretty over Garland and his whole "feminist" shtick. It hasn't sit right with me since Ex Machina, but given that that movie was so well crafted it was harder to pinpoint exactly why.. This movie reveals the shallow analysis he actually has. He centers a female character in a tale of misogyny that somehow leaves her inscrutable and unknowable. He leaves the film with a weird non-ending, and then is circumspect about it in interviews, which feels like a cop out to me. I learned Buckley wrote the dialogue for the vicar and it makes sense as those scenes with him felt more substantial than any others, even those with her husband. Whenever a guy puts this much "feminist" content out, I'm just over here with a heavy side eye WAITING for his metoo allegations to start dropping.

Woke junk. Stupid finale. An insult to all audiences regardless of gender (ha!)