Men (2022)

Reeling from the suicide of her emotionally- and occasionally physically-abusive husband, Jessie Buckley (I'm Thinking of Ending Things) goes to stay in a quaint little British village where all of the men are Rory Kinnear (the pig-fucking prime minister from the first Black Mirror episode).

Rory is a very discomforting man, and makes up a very discomforting town. Jessie has a terrible time, mostly caused by the naked Rory that hangs out in her garden.

Whenever one Rory is rude or creepy, she complains to a subset of other Rorys about it. When she talks to priest-Rory about her recently deceased abusive husband, priest-Rory unhelpfully victim-blames her.

It's unclear to us or Jessie whether she's going nuts, whether the many-faced-Rorys are up to something, whether this is a world of magic, or merely grief-driven hallucination.

Eventually, a Rory gives walking birth to himself, who falls over and births himself yet again in unexpected recursive confusion. There's a bunch of blood and stabbing, not so much explanation and sense. There were definitely some metaphors in there.

The many-faced-Rory is probably an allegory of misogyny and the patriarchy, each of his roles fulfilling a different stereotype of how men unnecessarily control, undermine, or frighten women. Most of his characters are harmless or handleable in isolation, but a whole community of them working in unison is more than one person can take. I guess birthing himself is some symbolic perpetuation of behavior or something. I don't really know, but I know that it made a bunch of film reviewers very upset, so it probably did something right.