i did not understand Men (2022)
also btw for those curious about it, serious content warnings on that one, ny’all
it’s probably good i just wish i’d understood what it’s doing
there’s some fucking excellent body horror in this one
also there is a very self-indulgent pun on wasps that i have no idea why it was there but i appreciated
my first guess is that all the men in this film are meant to be understood as different aspects of the way her guilt* over her husband’s suicide is haunting her; at the end they are gradually morphed together into one, and then take the shape of her husband as he looked when he looked himself. so i mean.
* undeserved, but it is not exactly the case that trauma is rational
btw all the men in this movie who are not her husband are played by the same actor so this film is REALLY inviting reading them as parts of some whole
