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Monday, March 22, 2021

A Promising Young Woman (2020)

The movie opens with a woman we are later introduced to as Cassie looking falling down drunk in a bar. There is a group of young men talking in a very sexualized and disparaging way about women in general and Cassie in particular. The least offensive amongst them, a guy who seems like a nice guy, goes over and tries to help her, but no, she doesn't have a phone, she has misplaced it. He offers to get her home, and all is going well until he has the cab stop at his place, where we find out that Cassie is not drunk and he is not a nice guy. People are not who they seem to be in this movie, which is essentially a really clver and well done revenge movie set in our rape culture.

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