βApple from the garden?β
I donβt recall taking a single breath during the entire final half hour of this film. Incendiary and brutalizing in equal measure, Garland has crafted one of the most metaphorically layered pieces of sociopolitical commentary ever put to screen. If Tarkovsky returned from the dead and teamed up with Cronenberg to delineate the horrors or humanity dating back to the creation of the church, it may come close to the agonizing effectiveness of Men.Β
P.S. Doβ¦