Denycia Haley

I don't know why everyone hated this movie so much. My husband and I liked it. Many people didn't like the plot because they left with more questions than answers. I like that everyone can leave with their own unique interpretation of what everything meant or symbolized. Definitely lead to many conversations going between my husband and I about what we thought different things meant. My husband thought the movie did a great job of making him feel the discomfort and fear that Harper felt in those moments that he doesn't experience in his own life. *Spoilers ahead* People seemed to really hate the last part of the movie and found the birthing scenes disturbing. They were disturbing but that's not a reason to hate the movie. It's a horror movie. They're often disturbing. They're supposed to be. I found it to be a disturbing and gruesome depiction of how the men like the ones depicted in the movie give birth to or make way for the other types of men to exist. How toxic masculinity begats toxic masculinity in its multitude of forms. How this cycle continues to be repeated through the enabling of society. It's the skepticism, the dismissal, the gaslighting, the victim blaming. It's the brushing off of the behavior of the "troubled" young boy, the inappropriate pastor, the dismissive police officer, the unassuming nice guy, all leading up to an emotionally abusive marriage and a sense of defeat. I do wish that this movie was at the very least co-written or co-directed by a woman because it think there were some themes that could have been fleshed out a little more but ultimately I thought it was pretty damn good and my husband loved it.