Promising Young Woman looks like the angry woman film we’ve all been waiting for
Promising Young Woman shows Carey Mulligan playing a woman seeking revenge against “nice guys” — and it looks exactly like the angry woman film we’ve been waiting for!
While revenge may be a dish best served cold, sometimes it can be the most satisfying. Or at least that’s the premise behind Carey Mulligan’s latest film, Promising Young Woman.
Mulligan plays Cassie, a woman who pretends to be drunk to lure predatory men — aka “nice guys” — to take her home. When they eventually go to take advantage of her, she reveals she’s entirely sober and then kills them.
Why is she on this mission of revenge? As it turns out, she left university because someone she cared about was assaulted, and no one believed her when she went on to accuse a “nice guy” or a “promising young man” or any other horrifically ridiculous phrase we’ve seen used to describe a rapist.
The trailer for the movie dropped this week, and from the looks of it, it will explore the difference between a woman’s worst nightmare and a man’s. According to one of the characters, it’s “every guy’s worst nightmare to be accused like that” — to which Cassie asks, “Can you guess what every woman’s worst nightmare is?”
This movie is going to make all the money, right? I expect to see it at least twice in the theaters. Watch the trailer for Promising Young Woman here:
I don’t know about you, but this is the film I’ve been waiting for. It takes an issue that affects so many and brings it to a place many women think about but never say aloud. In a world where a rapist going to jail is an extraordinary circumstance, what better way to escape reality than to get lost in a world where one woman gets revenge on them?
Besides Carey Mulligan, the film also features Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Alison Brie, and Molly Shannon.
The movie is written and directed by Emerald Fennell, who has been a showrunner and writer for Killing Eve and starred in Call The Midwife and The Crown. Clearly, she knows how to create amazing female characters!
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