MEN (2022) Ending Explained 

Body horror?

@@lessismore8533 u heard him

@@lessismore8533u heard him

@@lessismore8533 suh real

​@@lessismore8533I think that's a joke.😅

Omg I love your videos!!

I was just watching your Tiffany video omg

yeh it looks terrible, glad i just watched this breakdown at 2x speed instead of wasting my time on the full movie

Imagine watching entertainment media and thinking ‘this is a chore’. So go do something productive lmao.

@@TheSCPStudio it’s his job to do that

I honestly don’t know how you’d advertise this film

but yes, agreed

I diss your agreement

No they didn't?

@@glenn1974 K?

But that too is in keeping with the idea that that's not really him. He is dead and can never answer that question, so his answers can only come from her own mind. I was of the opinon that the entire movie was Harper working through her trauma not just of his death, but the domestic abuse.

I had a ex like this and yea not fun 5p deal with. He even said he'd off himself if I broke up with him....needless to say that relationship wasn't meant to last. He's alive, luckily I was able to leave before something big happened to me and him. I will say people like that are disgusting and hope he got help.

I think that he might not only have been abusive to her but he was also cheating on her and cheated with her friend who she's been talking to on the phone and her friend is pregnant from his baby thus the reveal at the end remember when she was talking to her on the phone and the phone glitched to her screaming seemingly in anger probably was a reflection of how she felt truly inside knowing that she was betrayed by her husband and her friend

It's not her job to help him. It was his job

It’s sperm and an egg

Fuck em. Artsy films are great. Everyone should have a chance to pick something in the group everyone takes a turn then no one feels left out.

I got banned from picking movies after I chose Teeth and saw it as a conversation starter with bad execution

You’re taking the wrong people. I am the movie chooser but for several different groups of friends. When my friend groups collide, I do not choose… I leave it up to them and make no suggestions. They always wonder why I never have a suggestion when it’s everyone but always for when it’s just 2 or 3 of us.. 😂

To this day I'm still surprised that "The Color Out of Space" was a hit with my entire friend group on vacation one year

@@jacobydove8213 that’s a dangerous one lol

Ayo 🤨

Looking respectfully of course

Huh. Nice catch!

We hit the yaoi part of his career

That made me snort laugh so loud I woke up my cat hahahaha

Dunno, most recent movies have a pretty boring telegraphed ending you see a mile away.

I agree! I’m tired of having to use critical thinking skills to figure out the ending!

I agree. I'm tired of Frodo walking to Mordor

@@Nik_Key meh, being opened ended can definitely be a way of avoiding writing difficult endings, no need to write it when you can just leave it to the audience.

Frickin A

Yes. This is a tactic introverts will use with little discretion to end small talk, and uncomfortable conversations.

it baffles me that the word "no." or the phrase" I don't want to right now" doesn't exist to some people 🤣

@@sharayajeter because some people refuse to take a hint and take it at face value

@@sharayajeter then you live in a bubble.. can’t see what’s so funny about your failure to recognize the luxury you may have of being able to point blank say “no” AND having people respect that. As someone else pointed out, “no” isn’t always respected, and can sometimes lead to confrontation.

@@danix454 EVERYTHING can lead to confrontation . ANY HUMAN can make u feel uncomfortable and peer pressure you into something. i was pointing out the wierd act of not handling that like a grown person and instead lying like a child because u don’t wanna talk 🤣🤣

Movie ending was so confusing left my jaw dropped

Hah! Exact same for me. Looked for vid, settled on reddit posts, also saw it last night, lol

I didn't think I was the only one that did this, I watched Vivarium when it first dropped, amazing film, but I needed more info, Foundflix did a solid job on it, but I still need more info, there's way too many things unexplained.

OMG SAME! I just watched this last weekend and as soon at it ended, i looked up Foundflix and saw that there was nothing yet! 😩 But so glad its now here! 👏🏼

same 🫣🫣

ANNIHILATION

@@eden20111 MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY

It looked like a human female's egg before fertilization to me... but idk... this was a wild movie lol

This is why I like films like this. There are 3 different theories here of JUST what the credits meant, and everyone one of them is valid. It’s great to be able to discuss a film and hear other people viewpoints

The "green sphere at the end credits" was literally the seeds of a dandelion reforming with the dandelion's seedhead. I'm actually not sure how that resembles cellular mitosis at all.

Te mental gymnastics

Never thought how those veins growing on him was a metaphor for her growing.

i felt the exact same way after watching this film, but i also agree with the poster's idea; they go hand in hand. To add: she is scared of him the first couple times she sees him, truth and trauma is ugly and uncomfortable- jarring at times. when we see her breathing in the floating seed after seeing him, she doesnt seem necessarily afraid, she seems almost calm. She even seems calm when she stabs him in the arm, its almost like she is accepting and now making an effort to come to terms, but there is still immense unease. and now every "different" dude has the same slit; though the green man was there to help her, he was also there to show her it will always be the same with these men if she doesnt face her fear head on. it seems like all men will morph together and she will be afraid of all men, letting the fear consume her unless she faces it. idk my interpretation def goes with yours, sorry if this was a weird add-on :b

Wow this is the shittest take yet

This is 100% contradiction to the movie criticism on masculinity. The "men" will help her grow? She doesn't need it. She needs to be understood (like the father said and didn't do), her desires and privacy to be respected. The moments of relief the main character has, before the ending, are always linked to understanding

Yes, that's what I was thinking too, especially since she doesn't really react to them all having them same face.

I was wondering about the same faces too but came to another conclusion. Let me share my thoughts. So first, this is a heavily symbolic and abstract movie which makes it a little harder to pinpoint its concrete storyline. But if we wanted to dig deeper into the same faces, below the uncanny valley it creates and a simple symbol for patriarchy, we can analyze how the story is narrated. I don't feel like Harper in her reality could have realized these men actually have different faces because I don't think she saw them as having the same face in the first place. She didn't react to them all looking the same because she simply didn't see them that way. There are lots of movies about some kind of trauma or mental processing with unreliable narrators (a great one starring Jessie Buckley is I'm Thinking of Ending Things) but this is usually handled differently in terms of cinematography. For example, think about permanence. Nothing Harper experiences - except maybe for the bird in her kitchen but even that's debatable - is ever contradicted or revealed to have been a hallucination. There WAS a random naked man both in the picture she took and her garden, the police physically took him away. There IS a trail of blood from the rebirth cycle present in that last scene, and Harper's friend seems to see it too. I think that's an important creative decision, especially for a last scene. This movie feels like it has an omniscient narrator who is showing us more than the main character knows. And that narrator wants to get an idea across, so it uses symbols like the same faces to make us see what Harper doesn't until the very end: All of these men are hurting and controlling her in one way or another. Of course the whole thing relates to her trauma that she has to work through, but she can't heal from it while still being traumatized. I also don't think the movie's message is as simple as "all men are evil", it's more about recognizing patterns of mistreatment - first in the people she is presently dealing with, then in her own ex husband so she can let go of that false guilt. So yeah, that still doesn't really explain how the plot ended and in what kind of reality which part of the movie took place because it's just not that kind of movie... but I really feel like Men does something different, other than the "it was all in her head" trope. I have no idea what kind of ending Garland originally thought of but the writing of an ending to a movie like that is hard and depends a lot on what you want to say. If he would have shown us that Harper was hallucinating, he would have sent the message that she is unreliable, aka she can't be believed. I don't think that's what he wanted to say with this movie lol. Though the plot is confusing, the story and message seem pretty clear to me. Garland said Attack on Titan inspired him to use an idea that's visually weird but ultimately simple. That's actually what he did throughout the whole movie. "The words I have to say may well be simple but they're true", to quote the very first thing we hear from Garland's narrator through the song lyrics in the prologue. If you got that far, thank you for reading.

Beware the moon.

yeah its not "all in her head", all the dudes having the same face is just the director giving us a visual clue as to what the movie is trying to say about men, that they're all going to be bad in some way

Honestly, it took me way too long to realise that they all had the same face. I'm going to assume she didn't see it at first either.

Honestly, I think zeus would have made for an interesting story.

It's sort of was Zeus and yeah once the wife finds out all damn Hell Breaks Loose

@@PreacherTHC I felt the symbolism in Men was a bit too vague.

@@lizardbashkins9042 perhaps for the uninitiated

@@PreacherTHC good grief 🙄

THE END OF THEN OF THE OF THE HER FRIEND?????

@Daniel Garrett 🤣🤣

@Daniel Garrett fixed it for you buddy since putting 2 and 2 together gives you a stroke

I agree, especially since that makes more sense in my mind. Neither sex can be "all the same."

Bit of both. Lots of men are the same, but people with trauma can seek the same comfort at time.

Yes that movie was an allegory of Adam and Eve and or even Mankind and his relationship with nature and the Earth

I liked this more than Mother. But I can def see similarities.

@@chadcognac5626 Mother was a slog for me. I did not like it at all. J-Law doesn't help. This one, at least had some gorgeously filmed scenes and a likeable main character. I felt terrible for Harper, especially when the Vicar acts as if James' suicide was her fault and that hitting her was not a capital offense. So, sure, he might be alive, but odds are she wouldn't have been because he would have murdered her eventually. He was seriously in trouble and becoming controlling and horrible.

She's running away from the truth that she's pregnant with her ex husband's kid, who in a way is his rebirth. I think that's why her friend showed up pregnant at the end of the film, and also why we saw the green man blow the spores into her mouth, then we saw in the credits how those spores reformed to make the dandelion whole again, signaling how he would be reborn in her.

I thought the person at the end of the tunnel was the vicar character. The clothing matches and he showed up both times she used her voice. In the tunnel creating a melody with echoes and again when she screams in the church. And when he confronts her in the bathroom and tries to have his way w her he says something about her singing to him, calling to him....

🎉

@@cokemachine62590the shooting stars going into the Galaxy in the sky

The person on the other side of the tunnel had a Yorkshire terrier ,so it cannot be her.

i think that was a point the film was making...

Yeah no dude. You can say that all you want but at the end of the day nobody deserves anything. You get what you give.

The fact that she had the wherewithal to force him out of her house, scream at him, and make harsh demands means she wasn't in any real danger. He shouldn't have hit her, but if she had given him a chance to apologize, he factually would still be alive, at least at that time. She could have easily taken in his apology, said it wasn't good enough, and kicked him out then. Instead, she kicked a suicidal guy out. Ps. If we are going down the road of, prioritize yourself over others, even if they are threatening suicide, that opens a lot of doors to a lot of BS happening today. If I don't like a certain group (ethnic, racial, orientation, gender expression, etc.), going by your logic, I should be able to treat them however I want and if they say they'll hurt themselves because of my actions, I can just come back and say their existence is painful and harmful to me.

@@Malthizar once she said it was over he should’ve just accepted her decision instead of trying to force her to stay with him by threatening suicide. He tried to emotionally manipulate her and it didn’t work, Im going with the theory that he fell by mistake after he got kicked out because he was trying to get on the balcony of their apartment.

@@NiC0L317 I agree that he slipped and fell. That doesn't change the fact that he was in that situation because she couldn't just let him apologize before contacting the police. We aren't talking about what he did wrong. We're talking about the fact that she forced a guy who threatened suicide out without having a chance to explain himself.

They are friends. They go to horror cons together

@@nickneuharth oh I figured they were friends but I didn’t know about them going to horror cons together. That’s cool :)

@@nickneuharth I wish they'd do some more videos together. I loved their previous videos together.

I think more of friendly acquaintances and peers but ye, both great channels

Same!! Being fans of both channels is so great

You should watch US (2018) directed by Jordan Peele

@@rowanv.6995 I’ve seen most of it, freaked me the feck out lmao

Watch "the Stranger

Yes, because he does it so well. Maybe an unfortunate typecast, but he's good at it at least xD

I thought he was Frankenstein's monster

@@wynngwynn The monster was given the name Caliban in the show. His " brother" is Proteus, and "sister" is Lily.

@@wynngwynn he was and his name was Caliban

@@IWasaTeenageTeenWolf Technically Lily was his sister and was groomed to be his wife until she slept with Victor.

I don't know what he does on average but I remember he once said he watched the movie at least twice, while pausing in between to take notes. Constantly pausing to take notes and make observations would probably take a whole afternoon. Narrowing it down into a short script and then filming and editing; probably takes a few days to do each movie review.

@@LoveYouLove1986 doesn’t he usually live stream when he edits too? I swear ive seen it before and the streams go on for several hours usually

@@litneyloxan That may be what I'm remembering but it was quite awhile ago. Does he still stream? No idea if he still does that.

Watching a stream would be good.

he gets it wrong with some movies. Like I remember watching his breakdown of the wailing and disagreed with him. I think the comments called it out as well.

Now this is an explanation I can get behind

Why is her friend pregnant though

Except her friend (presumably real) is aware of his death, no? In such case, it wouldn't quite add up If her friend isn't real or is but isn't aware of his death & just thinks they're separated then by all means, cool take!

I can definitely see this working. Like the drag marks and the blood was from the fact she had to drag the body into the house. Also why she's covered in blood. There was also another moment in the movie which may hint at this - when she's running out of the house and getting in the car, they flash back to her getting ready to exit the door and she's moving differently, and does things in a different order. It indicates she might be creating parts of the narrarive as she's going along. She probably tried to get away in the car because she was overwhelmed with guilt or grief. But she returned and that's when she herself crashed the car before finally processing her trauma.

It looks like he fell to his death in an urban area and his body was right on the sidewalk in broad daylight, don’t think she could’ve pulled that off. Cool idea though!

@Seanus Patricus So basically a film feminists and angry lesbians would like.

@@themanofshadows i guarantee you, nobody liked this movie lmao

@@sadexcuseforlife3860 Agreed.

@@themanofshadows Sir you're a feminist if you believe anything from women should be required to pay child support of they lose custody of their kids

@Seanus Patricus Thought you were going somewhere with that criticism, then you defaulted to angry chud anti-intellectual who makes being anti-feminist and triggered snowflake their personality trait.

I would definitely agree with your point, however when this is the only point of view we get the entire movie, it is hard to not help but feel like the message is “all men suck”

@@patarends813 Yeah, I definitely get that. Nuance is very tough when through the eyes of a damaged and scared person sometimes.. nature of the beast I suppose

@@alexroy5854 That’s true, and to be honest I just watched this a few days ago and new ways to interpret the movie keep popping up in my head. A lot of them don’t go anywhere still, but at least it keeps you thinking

but most men are the same.. her personal view isn’t necessarily wrong. every. single. woman. has experiences with constant terrible men.

This movie was utter garbage

THANK YOU! I subconsciously knew I recognized her but I had no idea why!

After the second birth, I couldn’t hold my laughter in at the theater anymore because WTF??!!! 😂

I agree it got boring lol killed the shock factor fast

Not......have I saw it nor do I think that's how it was intended to be interpreted but I still love the movie all the same.

This! And she might have unwittingly summoned it while singing in the woods.

Nice one! Also thought about the creature being similiar to Adam (naked, in the garden etc.) of the Garden Eve and thus is the Forefather of all men, hence the rebirth.

@Maynards so blue Exactly. I really enjoyed the first 2 thirds when I still believed it might make sense out of everything but in the end it turned out to just be a big shaggy dog story that was ironically sexist to both men (in depicting all men as the same and apparently irredeemable... tell that to the LGBTQ+ community) and women (in she was nothing but a hopeless terrified victim running away until she gave in). I mean, would it really have been so hard to dream up a way to give a win or fail because of her own flaws?? I think Garland just got high and wrote a bunch of nonsense down and no one dared question him because to do so could have been misinterpreted as restricting #MeToo movement, when the irony is it was actually exploiting it

@@laiatezenas3300 and bitimg the apple

With KIDS tying the trilogy to a fitting conclusion.

The reboot: THEY/THEM

I thought Oceans 8 was WOMEN. 😂

With the remake called “Wamen”

Prequel: boys

That part where the shoe gets his tongue ripped out? Sole crushing.

@@typhonviserys8288 shoe had such an innocent sole too! Im so glad the angel came down to heel him.

@@ReeceyWI see what you did there 😂

I truly enjoy watching Men!

😂

Jesus Christ Hahahaha

Hes ghey

Oh, he's gay too?

Broken ankle too

All of the injuries resemble the injuries on her husband's body

Why would you wait to see it until _after_ you heard his rundown and personal interpretation of the film? That seems so backwards

@@beckyblueish because the only way I could see this movie was if I paid an absurd subscription for a platform i wouldn't even use afterwards. Plus even if I considered paying it, there were SO many mixed reviews I thought I'd just wait until someone I respected reviewed it.

@@kbig2377 you could just watch it on a pirating website :PP, but i get the second reason lol.

@@kbig2377 it mostly had mixed reviews because a lot of men took a surface level offense to it lol. (seriously, the trailer comments alone were enlightening)

@@wynngwynn I don't know about surface level but ok. I wonder would u have the same attitude if there was a movie called "women" and it portrayed every women in the film as a horrible person

Ever watch A Serbian film? if ya like messed up stuff, I defy you to say you enjoyed that sad excuse for a piece of cinema in any way shape or form. Same premise you outlined, loads of totally unlikeable people, doing horrific shit. I still finished it, but I blame that on working in the middle of nowhere, with nothing else to watch.

@@suicidebylifestyle9267 weird movie bro, I wouldn’t go around recommending it lmao

@@suicidebylifestyle9267 I love your username and I think as I e aged A Serbian Film is less awesome when I think on it.

@@suicidebylifestyle9267 a heartwarming story with a great ending

@@suicidebylifestyle9267 It fits a great niche as a super shocking movie for teens to have fun with and be edgelords. I know I did back in the day. See also: Centipede, Human.

No one asked

specialy if you watch the full movie and pay money for it...

@@Nekr0n35 😂

@@Nekr0n35 sometimes that’s the point of art, for you to feel something.. doesn’t mean it has to be pleasant.. I think this movie got its point across perfectly..

@@VisceralCarbon art attack!

@@VisceralCarbon even if you feel like your time was wasted?

Femcel.....lol

You are my unique piece of shit ❤️

😂❤

the most beautiful irony that y’all victim blame.. STILL💀

@Someones Surlyuncle same!! 💀

Now I'm hoping someone makes a video with this song in the background 😆😆😆.

💀💀💀💀💀

He explains while he recaps

@@kimberlyjeanne9456 The reason for all the recapping is to make the video even longer. It's a tactic purely to game the RU-vid algorithm and monetization formula. From the value created for an "ending explained" video, recapping *literally* the ENTIRE movie is purely unnecessary. Most people visiting this video *just* watched the movie. He literally recaps the ENTIRE movie hence why his videos are all 30 minutes long. He does add some of his own personal commentary and analysis, but it's sparse in comparison. Just my personal feedback from having seen two of his videos now and knowing to avoid them going forward.

SAME! 😂😂😭 I didn't realize until I watch a review and was so confused how I missed it. lol

I mean, how couldn’t you tell?

Same and I feel so stupid now😭

@@carmelocamenzuli1932 Something similar to this was how I discovered I have mild face blindness lol. These other commenters might have it but I shouldn't armchair diagnose!

just like women

@@Nekr0n35 ironic

Like what?

@@blueismylove3128 her stopping the car, him driving away and then she decides to look up at the stars. How she just kinda stands there and watches as a man gets rebirthed multiple times. How a dandelion clover makes her fall asleep, keep her calm and complacent and then suddenly stabs the priest guy and then goes back to being calm. How this dude is multiple people at first but then turns out to be one guy who can shape shift.

Isn't that all if not most films tho? Weird and empty criticism. You aren't going to understand every aspect of the movie, especially an artsy one like this. The movie as a whole is pretty straight forward in meaning.

what? do you harper & james or the towns men

Lol man and woman. Such cavemen terms. I'm a trans biopic lobster myself.

You literally mentioned it. Why the heck does it matter if anyone else does? Why can you not just do so without claiming no one else is? These type of comments are just 😬.

@@dont-touch-mepg1392 lol my man/women

@@dont-touch-mepg1392 thank you

Nvm i just finished the video,

@@BraydenWilliams-tt2jc xD

@@BraydenWilliams-tt2jc idk but this made me laugh way harder than it should've 😹😹

Exactly, he literally just explained the movie 27 minutes for no reason and didn’t even actually explain the meaning of the ending. Movie Files did a much better job at explaining this movies ending.

Wow I was not expecting that.