‘Men’ is a Metaphor-Ridden Nightmare
A24’s latest is both far too real and way, way out in left field.
6 min readMay 20, 2022
Usually, I walk out of my first-viewing of a movie with a distinct train of thought buzzing along with my sugar high: a solid handle on what it was trying to say vs. what it actually said, its context, its narrative… I rarely struggle at extracting those things, because most movies offer them…