Promising Young Woman is a messy glossy revenge picture. At times it is as chaotic as the mind of its protagonist.
Cassandra (Carey Mulligan) is a medical college dropout who works in a coffee shop by day.
At night she goes to bars, appears to be paralytic and gets picked up by men who see her as an easy lay. In fact Cassandra is conscious and keeping count of all the sleazebags who have taken her home.
Cassandra teaches these men a lesson of the error of their ways. A darn risky move in my opinion as she places herself in serious danger in the process.
Her trauma is related to her best friend who was raped at medical college. The rapist got away with it and the college administrators backed the guy's word.
Cassandra has had issues and seems to have dropped out of life, going back to live with her parents.
Yet romance is in the air when she meets a fellow medical student Ryan from her college who is now a doctor. Maybe happiness is around the corner for Cassandra.
Promising Young Woman is full of cynicism. I thought it might be a female revenge movie in the style of Ms 45; in the middle it develops into a rom com.
Then Cassandra's thirst for revenge seemingly puts a young girl at risk, the daughter of the college dean. Later she might have placed another woman in jeopardy leaving the audience to wonder if Cassandra is a sociopath.
Written and directed by Emerald Fennell, who was the head writer of Series 2 of Killing Eve.
The movie shifts several genres and was never going to be straightforward. I just knew Ryan was too good to be true and would somehow be implicated in the college rape.
The final act is a cynical cop out. Once again showing that the men would do anything to save themselves.
Tonally the movie is grubby and it does fall apart with its muddled message at the end.
Cassandra (Carey Mulligan) is a medical college dropout who works in a coffee shop by day.
At night she goes to bars, appears to be paralytic and gets picked up by men who see her as an easy lay. In fact Cassandra is conscious and keeping count of all the sleazebags who have taken her home.
Cassandra teaches these men a lesson of the error of their ways. A darn risky move in my opinion as she places herself in serious danger in the process.
Her trauma is related to her best friend who was raped at medical college. The rapist got away with it and the college administrators backed the guy's word.
Cassandra has had issues and seems to have dropped out of life, going back to live with her parents.
Yet romance is in the air when she meets a fellow medical student Ryan from her college who is now a doctor. Maybe happiness is around the corner for Cassandra.
Promising Young Woman is full of cynicism. I thought it might be a female revenge movie in the style of Ms 45; in the middle it develops into a rom com.
Then Cassandra's thirst for revenge seemingly puts a young girl at risk, the daughter of the college dean. Later she might have placed another woman in jeopardy leaving the audience to wonder if Cassandra is a sociopath.
Written and directed by Emerald Fennell, who was the head writer of Series 2 of Killing Eve.
The movie shifts several genres and was never going to be straightforward. I just knew Ryan was too good to be true and would somehow be implicated in the college rape.
The final act is a cynical cop out. Once again showing that the men would do anything to save themselves.
Tonally the movie is grubby and it does fall apart with its muddled message at the end.