The man represents all men who Harper feels are a roadblock to her happiness, pushing her right back into the depths of despair. The tunnel is a metaphor for Harper’s path to wellness and happiness. Then suddenly, an unknown clothed man blocks the exit and scares her back. As she goes closer to the exit, she finds joy. James manipulated Harper to feel guilt during their relationship, and now that he’s gone, her guilt has only changed form.īefore entering the tunnel, Harper is scared as she passes through it, she plays with her echo (a reflection of herself). She has suffered abuse in her relationship for long, but it ended with her husband dying. In the movie Men, Harper is suffering from PTSD and is unable to move forward with her life. Men Movie: What does the tunnel scene mean? While as viewers, we find everyone to look the same, Harper never once notices this. In summary, this little ecosystem of people is part of Harper’s mental turmoil as she fights her guilt. The pub patrons – Normal country folk who turn aggressive. The Cop – A person of authority who thinks Harper is overreacting. Samuel – A young boy who should have been innocent but isn’t. This shows that based on Geoffrey, Harper has created various characters in her mind. It’s an isolated place, and we are never shown its residents beyond Geoffrey.Įvery other character Harper interacts with is played by the same actor, Rory Kinnear, who plays Geoffrey. The Village Men Explained: What’s going on in that strange village? While Harper was abused, she isn’t all gold. This scene gave strong vibes of city women ridiculing village folk. One point to note here is that Harper and her friend, Riley, make fun of how ‘country’ Geoffrey is, and Riley jokes about going Grouse Shooting with him. She’s not going insane but is going through trauma. After this, the horror that unfolds is the state of Harper’s mind, not reality. I also strongly think that Harper doesn’t meet Geoffrey again after this. Though he assumes Harper is going to stay with her husband because of her ‘Mrs’ title, he immediately feels foolish for making that assumption. Perhaps, she hopes this stay will help her move on. That said, she’s still not changed her salutation from Mrs and retains her surname, Marlowe. Harper has quickly made herself at home as she’s looking to embrace the experience. The owner Geoffrey gives her a tour of the place and jokes about her eating the forbidden fruit. Harper has decided to spend 2 weeks in the countryside in a beautiful house to get away from everything. The thing that haunts her probably never even happened. I bring these points up to indicate that Harper has possibly imagined the moment James stared into her eyes. It’s not too clear how he fully turned around as he hit the floor. James’ body is facing away from the building, but Harper remembers James facing him as he fell.This was an accident, and James didn’t plan to jump to his death he only used suicide as a measure of control.We’re shown that James looks at Harper as he falls, and this moment continues to haunt her. His ankle breaks and his hand is impaled by the fence. James heads up to the above residents’ house and tries to climb back down to his balcony. One day, matters escalate when James punches Harper in the nose, and she makes him leave. When Harper tries to get a divorce, he threatens her, saying he’ll commit suicide and she will have to live with that in her conscience. With that, let’s go through the plot linearly and try and label what is real and what is not. I’d go on to speculate that many of the events we see in the film aren’t really happening they only represent the turmoil inside Harper’s mind. But the way I saw it, Men is a giant metaphor for PTSD due to toxic masculinity. There are a ton of ways to interpret this movie. Men Movie: Full Video Explanation Men Movie: Plot Explained
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