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Promising Young Woman, there’s a pop song for everything.
And that’s intentional: The radical thriller, helmed by writer-director Emerald Fennell (best known as the Emmy-nominated
Killing Eve s season two showrunner and on-screen as Camilla in Netflix s
The Crown) is a powerful #MeToo revenge story that uses music to underscore the tragic, emotional complexities that result from rape. In it, Cassie (Carey Mulligan), a cunning med-school-dropout-turned-barista, lives a double life. She spends her days half-heartedly making soy lattes and her evenings pretending to be intoxicated at bars to exact payback on predatory men. Why play vigilante? She’s left incensed by a system that failed to protect her best friend Nina, who was raped and later died by suicide.