Entertainment
Something went very, very wrong here and I think I know why.
(That orange stubble… May we all, one day, be free from its prickly grasp.)
She then tells him its over via text.
At the end of the movie… Well, well get to that.
After Roupenians short story was published, manysmartpeopleopinedon its literary quality andthe ethics of the inspiration for it.
But whether its good or bad or ethical or unethical is somewhat beside the point.
It requires building, testing, and constantly refining a model of your partner in your head.
The movie, on the other hand, immediately precludes the possibility that Robert is anything but predatory.
[Warning: Spoilers forCat Personahead.]
This comes to an inevitably violent conclusion in the final act.
To save their lives, they hide under a hatch in the basement.
I have a theory about what went wrong here: horror brain worms.
It tookGet Outto get the ideainto public consciousness.
The brain worms cleared the wayforsomegreatfilms.
(I like to imagine them eating the fear of getting political out of executives heads.)
But they also gave usMen, a movie that dares to say men can be scary to women.
They gave usBad Hair, whichBitchaptly labeleda superficial finger wag of a movie.
Sometimes a movie doesnt need blood and guts and murder and screaming.
Thirty minutes in a room with a knife-wielding ghoul is scary.
Thirty minutes inside the head of a mildly delusional, semi-infatuated college girl who increasingly sounds like me?
Lets just say Id take the ghoul any day.
