Color me intrigued. I also liked that Bloodborne-sounding shriek at the end.
Men - Teaser Trailer + New Official Trailer
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Color me intrigued. I also liked that Bloodborne-sounding shriek at the end.
Alex Garland and Jessie Buckley teaming up for an atmospheric horror is enough to intrigue the movie neurons alone.
Well I'm going to be the awful cynic here and be the party pooper.
Seeing that it's from the director of Ex Machina and that film had, if I'm being generous a rather misanthropic streak through it, if I'm not being generous a rather misandrist streak through it (which is fine, you want to do it ok but I get to point it out and point out how it kind of didn't work that well with the films narrative) I already know kind of what it's going to be about.
Seeing that it's from the director of Ex Machina and that film had, if I'm being generous a rather misanthropic streak through it, if I'm not being generous a rather misandrist streak through it (which is fine, you want to do it ok but I get to point it out and point out how it kind of didn't work that well with the films narrative) I already know kind of what it's going to be about.
Ok so horror film and events as metaphor for a woman dealing with men in the world. Her Husband / significant other had cheated on her / hurt her some how and killed himself as a result and all the rest of the characters end up being broad allegories for variations of some kind of toxic masculinity. We have the Stalker figure, the school boy sort of one who feels entitled to her time, the elderly country gentleman type who is being weird with her in regards to her being seemingly single and not having a husband and you have the police officer who doesn't believe her about the stalker. All of which being sort of the same spectre in this case an allegory for Toxic masculinity that she will overcome in some symbolic way because obvious symbolism of the apple and original sin that the film basically lampshaded to begin with as part of it's narrative of people not believing women are all innocent flowers and instead women get blamed for so much and or not believed
You are aware that Alex Garland has done a lot of stuff other than Ex Machina, right? Like a lot? Basing predictions off a single work which happens to trigger your sensitive political foundation of identity is a poor start and comes off more closer to a glorified emotional knee jerk. Lemme throw in the other stuff from the wiki if that helps at all...
*Awkward cough*
Nobody's got a perfect track record I guess though, lol.
If I had to guess, I'd suggest the title is a red herring and the main character is in some sort of silent hill torment from their own suppressed guilt, considering her husband or whatever is supposed to be kinda dead or missing. Or something around that area.
1 work and you know the 2 trailers posted in this thread.
Also having seen all but 1 of those other films I can point to elements in them about the idea of the inhumanity of people.
If it sounds like a knee jerk it is but not due to politics but my reaction to Ex Machina which I had built up for me as this grant revolutionary Sci-Fi film that I'd come out of with a new perspective and seeing the world differently. I was excited to buy and support the film and then I watched it and basically went "That's it? That's the film people were building up for years? Thats it? really?" and the more I think back on it and analyse it the more it just grinds of me because of the sheer nihilism of the piece.
Also one of the trailers shows her seeing what happened to her husband unless it's going to turn out to be an unreliable narrator thing.
Also the team behind the trailer / the studio chose specifically to highlight Ex Machina and not any of the other works which if you were going for a more of a standard horror film you'd probably have built more hype going with 28 Days Later than Ex Machina.