Promising Young Woman

As has been par for the course lately, I will mostly let my video do the talking:

I have some key thoughts to add though. Possible spoilers ahead:

-The key questions I mentioned in the video are compelling on an existential level but take on a particular poignance when it comes to the issue of rape, as prevalent as the #MeToo movement showed it is in society

-The movie did address the infuriating fact that many people, women even, feel the real concern should be for men falsely accused of rape, instead of for women feeling too frightened to report being raped, even though the latter is two magnitudes (100 TIMES) more common than the former. We even hear the obnoxious line, “We don’t want to ruin a young man’s future.” I saw a heartbreaking meme a few years ago that I tried hard to find now. No luck, but I’ll just tell you it said that, “If a woman reports a man for rape when he’s young, they say, ‘Let’s not ruin his future.’ If she reports it later, they say, ‘It’s in the past; why are we dig it up now?’ There she’s left, trapped between his past and his future, with no value of her own.”*

-I feel the ending, while not ideal for Cassie, was what she wanted deep down. In the ultimate show of solidarity with her fallen friend, she felt like if Nina was suffering she should be too.

So happy for this movie’s Best Screenplay wins at the Oscars and Spirit Awards and for its Best Actress Win at the Spirit Awards!

Bottom Line: My favorite 2020 release.

Up Next: I alluded to it.

Questions? Comments? Feel free to write below.

*I at least found this meme I’ve alluded to previously.