This film's exploration into a man's descent into the "Incel-Sphere" is chaotic, tense, and at times, horrific.
Jessie Eisenberg is in peak form, riding waves of extreme anxiety to mental breakdowns. Filmed in the city of Syracuse, (Jade Jupiter's home city btw) the feel of the film is gritty, and working class, and a sense of desperation lingers over the main character and his pregnant girlfriend as he contemplates just how ready he is to bring a son into this world, when he, himself doesn't feel like a whole man.
The character falls in with an Incel group led by Adrian Brody, where in a mansion in Upstate New York, this collection of men spend their days spewing "alpha" rhetoric and shitting on working women. It makes an outsider come to understand how a man who has little value in himself and his life, could easily blame another group of people (women) for their shortcomings and confidence issues- especially white men...
SPOILERS
Eisenberg's spirals into madness when his girlfriend abandons him with his baby and he finally comes to the realization that he is gay (possibly bisexual) and has acted on his urges with a man from his gym. With a gun in hand, he makes a mad dash for the incel mansion, hoping they can somehow absolve him of the homophobic murder he has committed, but as a reflex to the cops circling the mansion, Eisenberg shoots Brody in the head, leaves his son and kills himself.
This film gives all outside parties a peek into the door of fragile, misogynistic, and homophobic white men and how they can take down the world with them, the moment they decide they hate their own lives...A terrifying reality of this world, but especially the United States.