Excellent performance by Carey Mulligan
The rape-revenge theme has been explored in many films, including “Sudden Impact,” “Extremities,” “The Virgin Spring,” “The Last House on the Left,” and “Lipstick.” There is satisfaction, if only through fictionalized stories, in seeing perpetrators of horrible crimes get their due.<br /><br />Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” falls into this broad category but approaches the subject more subtly, without exploitative violence. In fact, the viewer would have had no idea that plot centers on avenging rape until well into the film.<br /><br />Cassie Thomas (Carey Mulligan) is a 30-year-old medical school dropout who works by day in a coffee shop and still lives with her parents. Her only friend is her coworker Gail (Laverne Cox). There seems to be nothing special about Cassie. By night, however, Cassie moonlights as a drunk night club patron in slinky dresses and heavy makeup and endures the demeaning attentions of boorish men until some “nice guy” offers to take her home. When the nice guy takes her to his apartment instead and tries to take unfair advantage of her inebriated condition, she drops the act and her cold sober response strikes panic into the supposed Samaritan.<br /><br />We think that Cassie is a serial killer and some terrible act of violence will follow, but it never occurs. We learn that she has been traumatized by the rape of her best friend, Nina, by a fellow student when they were in med school. When Nina made an official complaint, friends and the dean of the university (Connie Britton) sided with the rapist, as did many high-end lawyers. Nina dropped out and killed herself. Cassie is now obsessed with avenging this wrong, but in clever, well planned ways that reflect her methodical thinking and her determination to hold those responsible accountable.<br /><br />When Cassie meets young pediatrician Ryan (Bo Burnham), she’s charmed by his wit and self-deprecating manner. They go out on a few dates and things appear to be clicking between them until he sees her dressed in her slutty attire and make-up during one of her nighttime prowls and is put off.<br /><br />Director Fennell, who also wrote the script, provides many twists and turns along the way that build suspense. We sympathize with Cassie for giving up a normal life to seek justice for a friend and admire her resolve. Because the theme of rape is serious, Fennell incorporates humor to provide balance and gives Cassie some funny one-liners without making fun of the actual act of rape. A psychological drama within a revenge fantasy and a rom-com veneer, “Promising Young Woman” underscores a deadly serious social issue while providing an entertaining story.<br /><br />Carey Mulligan plays Cassie as an authentic woman rather than a caricature. Cassie is righteous but also pathetic and vulnerable. She is charmed by Ryan and it appears that their budding romance might lead her on a healthier path. Mulligan can be scary, as when she shocks the various “nice guys” who see in her easy sex, and touchingly sweet when she flirts with Ryan in a “meet cute” scene in the coffee shop. She is a lone crusader attempting in ways she can control to hold accountable those indirectly responsible for the death of Nina.<br /><br />Bonus materials on this R-rated release include 3 brief featurettes and a writer/director audio commentary. A Digital code is included on a  paper insert.<br /><br />“Promising Young Woman” is a movie about contradictions. Everything about the characters, production design and costuming entails opposites. Some of these opposites point to how, in subtle ways, it’s easy to miss red flags certain behaviors would raise if they came from other people. The film shows the ways women are deceived, betrayed, and victimized by men, but comes to a conclusion where the main characters all face the consequences of their actions.
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