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Focus Features Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman Acts of revenge take on deeper meaning when they are committed not for purely personal reasons, but as a way to address a deeply ingrained cultural imbalance. The title refers to Cassie Carey Mulligana once-promising med student who has dropped out of school. Cassie seeks justice for Nina by becoming a kind of emotional vigilante. Not by starting a true crime podcast — this is a very aughts story. She goes to clubs and pretends to be drunk to entice and shame predators, and sets up a series of traps to confront the people — and really the systems — that failed Nina. It premiered in Sundance last year, but has been available on demand since Jan. By treating that sector as a subculture with its own values, and exploring its reactions to sexual assault, the film exposes how even straight white women uphold the status quo. The movie opens with one such scenario, which Fennell said was the genesis of the film. A disheveled Cassie sits on the sidelines of the dance floor, as a bunch of overgrown frat guys survey her calculated disarray and a dorkier, nice one Adam Brody offers to share a cab ride home.

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, Verified Purchase I understand a few of the criticisms that nothing happened and it was anticlimactic. For me, I think the movie is add trying to show the 'horror', the fear, the forgottenness that women be subject to at the hands of men after that society on the daily. Protecting men's potential at the cost of women's futures. How so many lives were destroyed by a secret that all hoped was forgotten. That even after someone is gone, their pain be able to live on and consumes others. The devastating effects of trauma on those who are left behind. I assume the movie was trying to act that that is where the actually terror lies - it is all the rage the every day for many ancestor.