Promising Young Woman

[curz]

I disagree, breh, it was just bullshyt. It could’ve been great with better writing, but nah. Too much ridiculousness. I wrote that other post during the scene where she takes the crow bar to dude’s truck after he was berating her for sleeping in the middle of the road. What a horribly executed scene. And that was just the tipping point after many other horribly executed scenes before that.

Ending was on the pinnacle of feminist fantasy bullshyt too; I truly don’t see why it’s being lauded.

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Dude is the EPITOME of white privilege. He has had his privilege reinforced with beating Nina’s rape case (despite video evidence and all), yet he chooses to try to cover up the murder for no good reason at all??? He had a perfectly good avenue to beat the murder charge: The truth.

Dude has this crazy broad who just drugged all his friends attacking him in bed. He has the ripped off handcuffs corroborate his story plus the fact that no one ordered a stripper and Cassie doesn’t work for a stripper agency. No way in hell he thinks that trying to cover up the murder would be the best way to go. Even if he was scared and in shock, no way his friend wouldn’t have seen that claiming self defense was the best route.

Good stuff, movie is stylish but the storytelling is cheap.


Movie has ZERO realism throughout the course of events. Every single male in the film is a cartoon slime ball. And then the movie does somthing very real at the very end when your senses are down for shock value, I found that cheap

ending still entertaining...7/10

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Interesting
Agree to disagree
I thought the truck scene was a great character moment. It added to the unpredictability of the protagonist.

I’m talking specifically about the execution of the scene tho...

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Dude is spazzing on her for sleeping in the middle of the road, pulls up next to her and counties spazzing on her. She gets out of the car, he does nothing.

She walks around to the passenger side of her car and grabs something out of it (he may or may not be able to see what it is), he does nothing.

She smashes the passenger side rear taillight, he does nothing.

She smashes the driver’s side rear taillight, he does nothing.

She walks up beside his window with the tire iron in hand, he does nothing.

She smashes his windshield, he does nothing.

She smashes his windshield again, he does nothing.

It was just such a ridiculously written scene. Fight or flee but to sit there and just watch her do it was silly. And that’s not the only scene written terribly. The Black dude escorting her out when the cross paths with the bf and the Dean of the medical school scenes were also executed terribly.

I did like how it started with the attacks on the “good guy” showing that many of them are just sheep in wolves clothing, even if having the night end with an attempted rape 100% of the time per her book was a bit much. But as the movie went on and she faced no consequences for her actions throughout the movie, it further illuminated the feminist fantasy tint that just wore thin. And she only paid the ultimate price in the end to facilitate that elaborate ruse in getting Al caught up on murder charges.

Woulda worked better if she woke up in a mental hospital after the credits rolled showing she had been destroyed by Nina’s rape and subsequent death. At least then we wouldn’t have to pretend any of this made sense.

 

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[semicko82]

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[BXKingPin82]

Good stuff, movie is stylish but the storytelling is cheap.


Movie has ZERO realism throughout the course of events. Every single male in the film is a cartoon slime ball. And then the movie does somthing very real at the very end when your senses are down for shock value, I found that cheap

ending still entertaining...7/10

pretty much sums up whiteboys. and the brothers who associate with them.

 

[semicko82]

I’m talking specifically about the execution of the scene tho...

Spoiler

Dude is spazzing on her for sleeping in the middle of the road, pulls up next to her and counties spazzing on her. She gets out of the car, he does nothing.

She walks around to the passenger side of her car and grabs something out of it (he may or may not be able to see what it is), he does nothing.

She smashes the passenger side rear taillight, he does nothing.

She smashes the driver’s side rear taillight, he does nothing.

She walks up beside his window with the tire iron in hand, he does nothing.

She smashes his windshield, he does nothing.

She smashes his windshield again, he does nothing.

It was just such a ridiculously written scene. Fight or flee but to sit there and just watch her do it was silly. And that’s not the only scene written terribly. The Black dude escorting her out when the cross paths with the bf and the Dean of the medical school scenes were also executed terribly.

I did like how it started with the attacks on the “good guy” showing that many of them are just sheep in wolves clothing, even if having the night end with an attempted rape 100% of the time per her book was a bit much. But as the movie went on and she faced no consequences for her actions throughout the movie, it further illuminated the feminist fantasy tint that just wore thin. And she only paid the ultimate price in the end to facilitate that elaborate ruse in getting Al caught up on murder charges.

Woulda worked better if she woke up in a mental hospital after the credits rolled showing she had been destroyed by Nina’s rape and subsequent death. At least then we wouldn’t have to pretend any of this made sense.

I didn’t see a problem with the execution.
It plays into the over stylized surreal aspect of the film.
That scene felt more dreamlike than real.

 

[semicko82]

Good stuff, movie is stylish but the storytelling is cheap.


Movie has ZERO realism throughout the course of events. Every single male in the film is a cartoon slime ball. And then the movie does somthing very real at the very end when your senses are down for shock value, I found that cheap

ending still entertaining...7/10

I thought the point of the movie was not to be realistic at all.
This movie is a romantic comedy, thriller, drama, revenge movie all rolled into one

 

[curz]

I thought the point of the movie was not to be realistic at all.
This movie is a romantic comedy, thriller, drama, revenge movie all rolled into one

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that is one of the points, but it’s only like that to disarm viewers into not expecting something realistic like her getting overpowered and killed happening. Realistically any woman doing somthing like that would get killed year 1. She didn’t even have any kind of combat training. But you don’t focus on that because the movie is cartoonishly silly for the majority.

it’s a respectable flick

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

I didn’t see a problem with the execution.
It plays into the over stylized surreal aspect of the film.
That scene felt more dreamlike than real.

I feel you breh, I really do.
Appreciate the discourse even if we don’t agree.

Whole movie felt like a dream sequence to me.

 

[semicko82]

I feel you breh, I really do.
Appreciate the discourse even if we don’t agree.

Whole movie felt like a dream sequence to me.

To be fair, I knew while movie would polarize audiences from the way the movie is executed to the message of the movie

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Carey Mulligan was the only redeeming thing about this film.

 

[Drew Wonder]

I had mixed feelings on this

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I like the fact that most of the men in this movie were "nice guys." Adam Brody's character at the beginning, McLovin, her boyfriend even Al Monroe at the end. The movie could've made them over the top jocks/misogynists but it showed how the seemingly nice and respectful guys can be just as bad if not worse.

Carey Mulligan was great in this, had a nice balance of charm and menace.

How she set everyone up was dope but I thought it was lame that all she basically did in her revenge scheme was give people lectures and scare them. Forget about killing them, she doesn't even physically harm them. It's like the movie wanted to make her edgy but was too afraid to make her too unlikeable by having her actually hurt the people in her revenge scheme

Same thing with the ending. I feel like they should've gone one way or the other. Either have her enact her revenge on Al and survive or go completely dark and have her killed with Al getting away with it. But they kind of went middle ground with the bittersweet ending which didn't really work for me, because I kept thinking of how farfetched it was for her to have this backup plan that was executed perfectly. I definitely got the "idea" of it, showing how her plan for revenge led to her self-destruction but in the end I was left wondering more about the logistics of how she pulled it off than the actual message.

So ultimately, I thought the movie had some great ideas and messages but the execution could've been better. And I think the film should've either gone completely dark and cynical or go for the more entertaining and hopeful direction. But the middle ground approach didn't really work for me.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

I had mixed feelings on this

Spoiler

I like the fact that most of the men in this movie were "nice guys." Adam Brody's character at the beginning, McLovin, her boyfriend even Al Monroe at the end. The movie could've made them over the top jocks/misogynists but it showed how the seemingly nice and respectful guys can be just as bad if not worse.

Carey Mulligan was great in this, had a nice balance of charm and menace.

How she set everyone up was dope but I thought it was lame that all she basically did in her revenge scheme was give people lectures and scare them. Forget about killing them, she doesn't even physically harm them. It's like the movie wanted to make her edgy but was too afraid to make her too unlikeable by having her actually hurt the people in her revenge scheme

Same thing with the ending. I feel like they should've gone one way or the other. Either have her enact her revenge on Al and survive or go completely dark and have her killed with Al getting away with it. But they kind of went middle ground with the bittersweet ending which didn't really work for me, because I kept thinking of how farfetched it was for her to have this backup plan that was executed perfectly. I definitely got the "idea" of it, showing how her plan for revenge led to her self-destruction but in the end I was left wondering more about the logistics of how she pulled it off than the actual message.

So ultimately, I thought the movie had some great ideas and messages but the execution could've been better. And I think the film should've either gone completely dark and cynical or go for the more entertaining and hopeful direction. But the middle ground approach didn't really work for me.

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I enjoyed it. The end I go back and forth on. Kind of expected it to be completely and just leave you with shock .

 

[TripleAgent]

Stumbled onto it. Surprisingly good. That weirdo tranny grosses me the fukk out.

 

[pickles]

OMFG this was amazing. Great fukken movie. Highly recommended.