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

Ever since 2017's Colossal came out, I've been trying to find people to share it with. The film, written and directed by Alex Garland, is a horror movie that, in its creator's words, is about “a sense of horror.” Rather than murders or gore, most of the memorable moments are all-too-familiar mundane scares. This is evident even in the trailer, like when an officer tells Harper he's skeptical that the man who was stalking her really was stalking her: “I don't know if he saw you once.” These moments highlight how skepticism, dismissal, and victim-blaming help create the very horrific environment that many claim doesn't exist. You can’t ignore the dangers here.” The film is right, of course, but it feels like it's screaming into a void. Deliverance exists, particularly in the ways Harper responds to horrors—the final words of the movie seem destined to become the kind of too-real meme that's usually the domain of early BoJack Horseman episodes—but it's more resigned and exhausted than, say, Colossal.