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• The monster within netflix series#

And yeah, I’m going to talk about the ending now, so if you don’t want to know just stop reading and come back later. Near the film’s conclusion Garland’s metaphor ends up becoming real explicit in a few different ways.

Throughout the film, he is the only kind and semi-reliable person in the town, and part of the film’s conflict is in seeing whether or not he will eventually be revealed to be just as nefarious as the rest of the population. He’s just a little lonely and isolated, and we later learn that his father got on his case for not being macho enough. There’s something a little off about the guy, but we never see him as a threat. We’re first introduced to him as Geoffrey, the slightly weird but lovable owner of the house Harper’s renting. Rory Kinnear plays the entire population of the town, with the possible exception of a single female police officer (possible in the sense that she might or might not live there, not in the sense that Rory might also be playing her).

Harper is staying in a country house located on the outskirts of a small English town, Cotson. It has far more male characters, all of whom are played by the remarkably talented Rory Kinnear. Men has three female characters, played by three separate women as you might expect. The route she takes to get there, however, is unfairly treacherous. In the end, not being able to rely on anyone else for relief, she has to make her own peace with the event, and she does. She knows it wasn’t her fault, but she also needs someone else to tell her that, to confirm that she shouldn’t feel guilty. She watched him fall past the window and crash into the iron fence below. Basically, Harper told her husband that she wanted a divorce and he didn’t take it well: screaming at her, hitting her for the first time ever, and telling her that if she went through with her plan he would kill himself. She’s just been through something awful: her ex-husband killed himself, and she watched it happen. She rented this big, old house in the country so that she could spend time by herself, relaxing and forgetting her worries. Harper, played with incredible skill and finesse by Jessie Buckley, wants very relatable things throughout Men.

What does it feel like to be on the other side of that, to be despised simply for not reciprocating purely subjective and situational feelings? That’s what Men is exploring. There are many people out there who feel they are owed love or sex or attention or whatever else from the people they desire, and when they don’t receive it they get very, very angry. This can get particularly horrific when it comes to the world of, uh, dating (if that is the right word). However, this desire can manifest in some people as a sense of entitlement, this idea that they are somehow owed the things they want. We all strive for our own version of a happy ending, a moment where you can feel good about rolling the credits. We are all the protagonists of our own narrative. She runs into her apartment and locks the door, terrified, as he pounds on the door and screams about how she should “give a nice guy a chance.” Now, this scene is pretty overt, and some may lodge the same complaint at Men, but both are making a hugely valid point about entitlement and gender politics. In it a woman heads home from the bar, soon becoming aware that one of the other patrons is following her.

The monster within netflix series#

While watching Alex Garland’s new film, Men, I was reminded of a scene from the excellent Netflix series Master of None.