Men Is an Excellent Movie and I Have No Idea Who It’s For

I have been trying to find people to share Colossal with. I ran into a wall. The people who might be interested in the story are the ones who are most uncomfortable watching it. The people who would get the most out of internalizing its message about the destructive nature of toxic masculinity are the ones who are completely bewildered by what it has to say. Few are in a position to benefit from it.

Men are doomed to suffer the same fate.

The film, written and directed by Alex Garland, is a horror movie that is about a sense of horror, rather than murders or gore. It's familiar to some people.

After the death of her ex- husband,Harper (Jessie Buckley) arrives in a picturesque cottage town, hoping to emotionally recover. She is not sure from the moment she arrives. The landlord of the place she is renting, the local police, the vicar of a nearby church, random strangers, and everyone else are all present at the best of times.

You know where this is going. Men would like to show the impact of microaggressions toward women by making them just a little more macro, which only emphasizes the question of who the film expects to be in the audience. This story is unnecessary for some. Many women already know that Garland recreates horror movies. Jaina Grey said that she did not need to pay to be afraid of being murdered by men.

The film is designed to head off arguments from people who don't like what it has to say. This is evident in the trailer, like when an officer tellsHarper that he doesn't know if the man who was stalking her actually saw her. The horror is created by the collective refusal to take her concerns seriously. Men are intent on screaming. The film is correct, of course, but it feels like it is screaming into a void.

There are some actual supernatural horrors. The grotesque scenes are truly grotesque, but in true Garland fashion they get more abstract and open to interpretation by the end. If you were confused by the ending of Annihilation, this movie will do you some good. The story does not forgo catharsis. The final words of the movie seem destined to become the kind of too-real meme that is usually the domain of early BoJack Horseman episodes. There is no victory over her tormenter. Just pity.