![]() ![]() What comes after it hews closer to dreamlike surrealism: Still shell-shocked in the aftermath of James’s assault, Harper catches sight of her husband falling through the air outside their living room window their eyes meet for a split second as he flails against a blood-red sunset. This act of domestic abuse is abrupt, terrible, and all too plausible, a slice of real-life horror in a highly conceptual movie. James threatens to kill himself in response before punching Harper in the jaw on his way out of the apartment-and, seemingly, her life. Harper Marlowe (Jessie Buckley), a 30-ish Londoner living in a stylish high-rise just across the Thames from the Shard, tells her husband, James (Paapa Essiedu), she wants a divorce, and she won’t take no for an answer. ![]() Men starts with the end of a relationship, and it’s a breakup with a body count. ![]()
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