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'Toxic masculinity' is not enough for fiction

Why should I be interested in irredeemable shits?

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James Harris
Sep 30, 2021
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Christian (Jack Reynor) in ‘Midsommar’ (2019).

‘Midsommar’ was a breakout hit, the kind of scary movie which started cropping up in the conversation of horror-agnostic friends. It tells the story of Dani, a psychology student who accompanies her boyfriend Christian on an anthropology field trip to rural Sweden. It doesn’t go well for anyone, but particul…

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