Above all, it is
a movie about masculinity and men.
Not exact matches
In discussing the original film with the rest of The Mary Sue editors, Teresa pointed out that The Warriors was all
about toxic
masculinity, and she's absolutely right; I imagine what one thinks the
movie says
about toxic
masculinity will be very dependent on how one feels
about toxic
masculinity overall.
It's a low - key relationship dramedy / road
movie starring the ripe - for - a-late-career-renaissance Bruce Dern (who'd be the most obvious likely beneficiary from the film's award season release date), and «SNL «alum Will Forte, that promises at least a modicum of the kind of off - kilter wry observations
about masculinity and aging that have marked out Payne's best previous work.
It doesn't help that Ms. Janney's character is the least developed in the
movie; though her back story is briefly sketched in, she serves mainly as a plot device in what is ultimately a film
about masculinity and its discontents.
Gifted
movie director, Marc Webb talks
about why Chris Evans was the right choice for the
movie, he says the actor had a certain sense of
masculinity that other actors seem to lack and that he came with a «certain baggage» from Captain America which made him stand apart.