spoiler this was bad

there’s an interesting way of engaging with masculine coded films from a critical angle and then there’s a performative, self-indulgent approach that needlessly centers the writer’s personal life and this article falls in the latter camp

“a lot of men i know like this movie and there’s a lot of men in it” ok and????? is that your entire point

also a lot of women like this movie too so why not actually try to unpack why that might be instead of lazily dismissing the whole project as a man thing

consumption as identity is boring

sidenote when writing “the latter camp” i originally made a typo so it said “the latter dano” which is funny because paul dano plays 2 parts in this movie lol anyway