Writer-director Alex Garland’s latest, the high-concept horror flick ‘Men,’ reminds us that men are awful — at the expense of the woman at its center. K. Austin Collins’ review.
, as a genre, is its ability to remind us that some of the most commonplace fears are incredibly subjective: Even if we can all recognize them, we don’t feel them equally. But in recognizing and responding to other peoples’ fears, you’re goaded into admitting that they’re real, even legitimate. So it is, in the case of, when we see the movie’s heroine, Harper , walking alone at night through an uncomfortably quiet village amid churchyard tombstones and trees that obscure the sky.
Still, somehow, it seems as though Harper is barely there. If the movie’s men are reduced to what’s worst about them, so is Harper: Her character is largely composed of reactions to what’s worst about those men. The exceptions are, unsurprisingly, her interactions with women, specifically her hilarious sister , whom we largely encounter over the phone, and a woman police officer.
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