Alfred molina promising young woman6/11/2023 This is the point when Promising Young Woman hits its stride with a keen handle on its darkly comedic tone mixed with devilishly fun revenge thrills-the movie is broken into sections as Cassie takes them down one by one. Though it’s never said, it’s heavily implied that Nina eventually killed herself.Īfter a swoon-inducing meet cute with Ryan ( Bo Burnham), an old classmate, Cassie decides to finally enact revenge on the people that led to Nina’s suicide-a friend that didn’t believe her ( Alison Brie), the dean of the school ( Connie Britton), the lawyer who bullied her into silence ( Alfred Molina), and the man who did it ( Chris Lowell). We dig into exactly why Cassie is doing this throughout the movie in bits and pieces, but the core is because of an incident in college where her friend Nina was raped and, as the story often terribly goes, wasn’t believed. This is what Cassie does over and over every night as a way of scaring men into never preying on women again. However, he’s horrified to find you that she’s not drunk. There he begins to try and have sex with her even though she’s passed out. And that seems like the plan at first, but while in the car her makes a last minute decision to take her to his apartment. Jerry ( Adam Brody) chastises the men for objectifying Cassie before offering to help her get home. One of them, however, seems like a nice guy. Fennell captures the group like predators-which you’ll see why-stalking their prey. Watching from afar, of course, are a group of men just off of work on the prowl. She’s sh!tfaced, barely able to hold her head up. ![]() The movie, which makes a play for my heart by instituting Charli XCX’s “Boys” to great effect, opens with Cassie Thomas ( Carey Mulligan) doing her best impression of me at a bar pre-pandemic. Sometimes it gets away from her, but even when it does it’s hard to look away. The incredible amount of thematic, tonal, and character weight that director and writer Emerald Fennell has to balance in the film-her debut-is admirable. If points were being awarded for level of difficulty, Promising Young Woman would score a ten.
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