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âPromising Young Womanâ Review: Courting Dangerous Liaisons
Carey Mulligan stars in this feminist revenge thriller that too often backs away from its potentially searing setup.
Carey Mulligan in âPromising Young Woman.âCredit.Focus Features
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A hard candy with a sour center, âPromising Young Womanâ turns sociopathy into a style and trauma into a joke. Embodying both, Cassandra (Carey Mulligan), 30, a medical school dropout still living with her concerned parents (Jennifer Coolidge and Clancy Brown), is a weekday barista and a weekend huntress. Her prey is two-legged, but single-minded: men who equate a womanâs inebriation with consent.
Promising Young Woman Review: A Frightening and Fulfilling Revenge Thriller
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Recent years have seen critics and audiences alike waxing poetic about what does or doesn t constitute a horror film, due in large part to filmmakers like Jordan Peele, Jennifer Kent, and Ari Aster expanding the scope of what it means to deliver a horrifying narrative. In this regard,
Promising Young Woman might not necessarily be considered a genre film in all circles, despite it seeing our lead character taking out violent vengeance against anyone who accepts her bait. Surely this core premise should be enough to deem it an unsettling experience, though it s in its reflection of the real-world culture of toxic masculinity, sexual assault, and the fragility of the male ego being what makes the experience far more disturbing than any of the film s narrative reveals. This all culminates in
Bad behavior by men gets rightly punished in Promising Young Woman Bo Burnham in Carey Mulligan and Christopher Mintz-Plasse in
Promising Young Woman.
Photo courtesy of Focus Features Message movies can come in all forms, from serious Oscar-bait dramas to hilarious satires. But there’s rarely, if ever, been a message movie like
Promising Young Woman, which tackles an issue that’s a scourge on society in one of the most provocative ways you can imagine. Cassandra (Carey Mulligan) is an emotionally-stilted woman, as evidenced by the fact that she’s still living at home at age 30 and working at a coffee shop despite having gone to medical school. Oh, and there’s also the fact that she repeatedly goes to bars and pretends to be blackout drunk so that she can prey on guys who have no qualms taking advantage of a woman in such a situation.
Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Once a promising young medical student, Cassandra s (Carey Mulligan) career was derailed when her best friend was raped. When everyone but Cassandra blamed her friend for what happened, the friend went on to commit suicide. Despondent, Cassandra drops out of school and takes a low paying job as a barista.
She begins living a secret life at night by going to bars and pretending to be drunk. Then when a man tries to take advantage of her, she confronts him, totally sober, with the fact that what he s doing is wrong. When she discovers that her friend s rapist has become a doctor with a wonderful life who s about to marry a model, she decides she has to do something to avenge her friend.