Sean Fennessey
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Adam is, I need to go back to this special place where I come from.
And honestly, what an amazing insight that is into the way that men think and the way that women think.
And the way that women try to become realized in the world and seen and accepted and promoted.
And the way that men are just like, take me back to when me and Grunge were talking about the viewist universe in camp.
And there's truth in it.
Part of my... It's not confusion.
Part of my sort of like unsettledness with the movie is that one, it's kind of a... It's jumping from...
lily pad to lily pad tonally where it can't really decide does it want to be a kind of sincere exploration of lost childhood?
Does it want to be a really arch satire of 80s consumerism?
Does it want to be an exploration of toxic masculinity?
Does it want to be just a pure high fantasy movie?
It's trying to do a lot of things at the same time.
That's very, very challenging for a movie.
The one thing that is a little bit particularly odd is that Adam on Earth works in human resources.
And has learned the language of safe workspaces and safe spaces in general.
And he is presented as a pink button-down wearing kind of evolved man.
And then obviously running underneath that is this desire to Hulk out and to become He-Man.
Totally.
Is the movie like, is it sending up toxic masculinity?
Is it like commenting on...