This has been a topic I’ve intended to set up for a quite while now: a focus on the Unofficial Trilogy. And since the majority of my posts tend to rally around music or TV, I wanted something that’s solely movie related, hence this.
On more than several occasions, I’ve seen three movies consecutively, or close enough to each other, that all tie into a similar theme. To initiate this category, I will discuss the Man’s Mind Trilogy.
Look at how dark all those posters are.
Ladies… do you think men are pigs? Are they born that way, or are they made? That’s kind of the simplest breakdown of this film’s thesis. It examines the effects of wanting/having/needing sex on the male mind, and how that gets passed down through the generations. Campbell Scott plays uncle to Jesse Eisenberg, back when Jesse was just Hallie Eisenberg’s older brother, and not an Oscar-nominated Actor! Who’s Hallie, you also ask? Remember the Pepsi Girl commercials?
Author Nick Hornby could have made this list twice (About a Boy was thisclose to making this trilogy), but this one is on here because it examines what men think about relationships. Every aspect of relationships. Before they’re in them. While they’re in them. Even the flickering relationship men have with the memories of their faded relationships. And it takes place in a record store. You know, because records is a metaphor for records, yo!
What does it mean to be a Man in the Modern World? Fight Club certainly doesn’t pull any punches (ha!) when examining this question. I won’t divulge the scope or the twist of this film because if you haven’t seen this somehow, I won’t be the one to ruin it. But I have three parting words for you: duvet… and Bitch Tits.
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