Around the midpoint of "Men," writer/director Alex Garland's spellbinding psychological thriller, a vicar (Rory Kinnear) asks Harper (Jessie Buckley), "Do you prefer things to be comfortable or true?" This film is rarely comfortable, and what exactly is true will be up to viewers to decide.
"Men" opens with a hypnotic, dreamlike episode where Harper, looking out a window, sees a man (Paapa Essiedu) falling to his death. It is soon revealed that the man was James, Harper's husband. He had threatened to kill himself as a response to her filing for divorce. James told Harper he wanted to kill himself so that she would be forced to live with the guilt. But did he really fall to his death, or did he slip by accident?
