Men are terrible but Men is great | Movie Review
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2022
- Video #200. Seems fitting.
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He made a new movie? Awesome, gonna check it out. Great message for your 200th vid as well.
Congratulations on your 200th video!
Hi! We’re finally out of Shanghai lockdown, so this is a lovely surprise.
Why were you guys on lock down, because of Covid?
@@ultimatesportsmedicine4395 Yes. ‘Zero COVID’ policy is strict, to be diplomatic.
If you like that actor, you'd love him in Penny Dreadful!
I think I have a certain level of face blindness, which... kinda helped out with the deep creepiness of the film. I knew everyone looked kinda weird but it wasn't until I read a review after the fact that I realised they all had the same face.
Even the kid, who I noted had an adults face, I still didn't make the connection.
Whoa!!! I DIDN'T EVEN notice that all the characters were played by the same actor😮🤔!! Does that say something about the actor or about me?😁
First off, this is my favorite horror movie of the year. Not even Cronenberg's return can knock it off my top spot. Highly recommended for anyone who's a sucker for slow-burn horror with a healthy dose of symbolism and metaphors.
Alex Garland announced in an interview that he will be taking a hiatus from directing movies and focus more on his writing. If you received such a response from a benign single sentence, then one can only imagine the amount of backlash Garland suffered for this movie.
My take away from this film is quite optimistic: it's less of "all men are inherently bad, including the first man", but more of Harper finally finding peace and healing after a traumatic experience. To me, Men is a story of growth and rebirth (excuse the pun); and how one conquered their fears to have a happy life at last. But then again, the title is not Harper, so my take may be completely off the mark.
Thank you for your insightful review. You just earned yourself a new subscriber. Stay courageous and awesome.
I am so glad I found you! Great perspective! Subscribed! Everyone, hit the like!
What a great take. Thank you!
I didn’t like it. Oscar bait. But that’s just my opinion.
Would you recommend this movie to non-horror fans? btw, I'm the man (ugh, I know) and I am torn about this subject. I feel that simply by existing I do bring a sense of danger to other people around me. And at the same time, I would like to feel okay being myself. However, how to disentangle this equation "be myself = be a danger" ?
You can be yourself without objectifying women. Every time I get into a taxi, I don’t know if I got a driver who will just ask me where I want to go or if I got a driver who will ask me if I’m married, scold me for being single and demand an explanation for my choice. In this situation, he’s not “being himself,” “he’s being opportunistic and predatory. These occurrences make me wish I was invisible.
@@jam_is_jammin yeah, and that’s exactly my point. I never do that (or have done that), however I understand that to me being quite a big and tall guy, there’s a possibility of that behaviour that exists within every person I meet. And here by “being myself” I mean “be a 6’3 athletic dude with a resting bitch face”, which also means for other people “be a potential source of danger”.
@@solodar1995 I don’t think the movie is about people who keep to themselves and have an angry face. But I do understand that big and tall people are stereotyped. I’ve seen that happen.
Ask popl and give them room?! nd outs to show they are safe?! Try to be yourself but do self critical of negative behaviour partterns, which is incredible hard?!
Anyways good luck. You seem fine if you ask that in the first place, seems you already do that? Just go along that journey, without hating yourself too much,.
And learn to put your emotional selfcare not only on one person that is a woman and partner but several if possible. Because thats human and build other relationships too that do that. Let that gradually out and not go over the top when its too much on one person. I think that is a good one, learn healthy selfcare and emotionaly hygene and sellove, th halthy kind, not the narsicist.
Ok thats other. Learn body language?! probably the only thing peterson is good at , body language and selgf obervation guess. You can manipulate your body language and e yourself an a balance?! Be a chill confident but not needing agesion self, ? Try selves that are less scary? Ther is not one self, there are several.
Stop apologizing for things you have no control over. There's nothing wrong with being a man.
Perfect video.
I love this! Shattering the "not all men" knee-jerk response is vital, especially while discussing this film (& its aims). Considering the discourse surrounding this film (let's be honest, the trailer), this is a bold and refreshing approach to reviewing it. Thank you!
refreshing to see the other point of view. All i've seen is people complain about the sjw trash in this movie
Rightfully so. It's overflowing with it. And don't be mistaken, this film got green lit for that very reason. The director saw an opening. Maybe had a spec script but decided to layer in the woke garbage and bada bing bada boom you get a talented director selling out and wasting a film with this bull shit nonsense
SPOILERS:
When Harper drives up to the house and picks up an apple, I instantly realized: this is an allegory for how men view women, consciously or unconsciously, as the ones who seduce men into doing terrible things. Men don’t consider their actions as their own, but rather byproducts of the influence women have on them, therefore blaming women for actions men inflict upon them, aka blaming the victim.
The unsubtle Eve in the garden of Eden visual was enough to tell me exactly what the point of the movie was before the movie even really got started. Obviously, I’m sure I missed a lot of deep subtle clues about Harper’s character growth or references to British folklore, but the main point of the movie (which is also given in the title) was so obvious that it took away from what is otherwise a well made and well acted movie (with a fantastic score) and made it a bit forgettable to me.
Subtlety is the key to most slow-burn horror films, and that was the key piece I felt it lacked.
well dude, the truth is, issues men have that they put on and act out on women are in reality incredibly unsubtle. This is no flaw in filming, but an aspect of reality accurately portrayed. Women feel the threat of men's objectification incredibly unsubtly. Sometimes there's a slow approach, sometimes it's quiet, sometimes it's veiled under a veneer of niceness and there's a flip, but one thing it never is, is subtle.
Great review. Just watched Men last night and during the first half I was thinking, “this is the most beautiful horror film ever made”…then the s$&t hit the fan! Definitely had to think about it overnight but 8.3/10 feels about right.
Glad you mentioned Promising Young Woman…this would make a terrific (albeit demanding) double-feature
i really liked Men. I don't think i fully understood it in all the metaphors and creepy body horror. i'm a woman.
Important message, especially for those of us who fall into the trap of thinking we're "one of the good ones."
There's no such thing as "One of the good ones", no individual is inherently bad or evil
I didn't even realise all the men were played by the same actor lol. I personally felt like the message was really obvious and it would be for most afab people, and honestly I know most cis men wouldn't want to actually engage with it. I thought it was a good film and I loved the imagery but I think Garland failed to find an audience unfortunately.
This was a terrific creep fest. Fragile egos aside deny it was creepy.
Thanks for your insightful perspective .
I’m thinking Anomalisa but somehow more dreadful.
why such a nasty and mean spirited title?
Because it's true?
@@TheWeekIReview so you’re just an idiot then who thinks the world is black and white without nuance. Very mature you pretentious dork
Incredible.
@@TheWeekIReview it is incredible , that someone could be so misandrist and at the same time a man himself
Why do you feel like the title personally affects you?
The title of this video made me not want to see this film. The comments section confirmed that I was absolutely right.
Looks like someone is projecting their own insecurities.
@@Solarstar10 Having insecurities is not a bad thing, is part of what makes us human
Damn ur super woke! 🤣🤣
This movie was trash but it's woke so duh it was
You're boring.
@@TheWeekIReview i mean he's right though. It is woke propaganda. Stay mad :)
Using the word “woke” is best way to tell us all you are fast asleep.
You just proved his point. In no way can the movie affect men in a negative way, but the reality is, even as I am typing this there is a woman out there suffering at the hands of a man who might consider himself a good person.