“Every day, I come by your house and I pick you up.
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(05-28-2024, 07:36 AM)Besticus Maximus wrote: As for Men, it's been a while since I've seen it but I understood the message as 'men are all the same'. And he's right tbf.

(05-28-2024, 08:03 AM)Polident wrote: Men was very blunt compared to his other works (Dredd, Ex Machina, Annihilation, Devs) so it was a little disappointing. I hear Civil War pulls back on it and I’m gonna watch it eventually.

I mean... the swerve on that take to me, is that the 'final man' isn't the Rory Kinnear sameface all the other Men are; it's her dead husband.
So the thing it's saying must be about him in particular, even though he is - visibly, cinematically, narratively, thematically - the product of all the other Men.

I liked its ambiguity, and that I wasn't entirely sure what ultimately the 'message' was, or even if there was actually supposed to be one rather than it being more of an existential musing. I don't
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RE: “Every day, I come by your house and I pick you up. - by Eric Cartman - 05-28-2024, 11:34 AM

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