{"id":9912,"date":"2020-12-15T03:59:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T03:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/?p=9912"},"modified":"2020-12-16T04:36:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T04:36:56","slug":"promising-young-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/promising-young-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Promising Young Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Carey Mulligan keeps you guessing from start to finish in this role playing revenge film about misogyny and male privilege. Every woman can appreciate this tantalizingly clever thriller from actress (The Crown<\/i>) now <\/i>Writer\/Director, Emerald Fennell. She turns male psyche on its head.<\/p>\n

Cassie (Mulligan) is gorgeous in this film and plays everything from clueless drunk to sex pot, prosecutor, judge and jury. Although her character plays it close to the vest, she readily shows how satisfied she is after every conquest with a subtle but effective smirk. Cassie seems to be\u00a0 <\/span>passive\/aggressive, but she\u2019s really smoldering underneath.\u00a0Mulligan gives it plenty of attitude and not a trace of her British accent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mulligan plays the role of a super smart med student who dropped out abruptly after a mysterious traumatic indecent. You first see her, apparently drunk out of her mind, in a bar, being approached by young men who offer to take her safely home. Little do they know what she has in store.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cassie lures men into showing their real motives and then exacts her revenge. You don\u2019t know immediately what drives her but you are also lured in, curious about her \u201cMO.\u201d What is <\/i>she up to? And why? Fennel shows her playbook entries on the screen so you can see how she maps her strategy, daily.\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”9934″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”9925″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”9916″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]The structure of the this dark comedy is in 4 chapters as Cassie plans how to exact her revenge. You still don\u2019t know why. She\u2019s definitely a mastermind thinking up the details and taking great pleasure in her progress. As Cassie professes, \u201cSometimes people need to be reminded how to behave and I have the perfect plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

She even keeps her parents (Jennifer Coolidge, Clancy Brown) in the dark. They know there\u2019s something not right with her and they\u2019re afraid for they daughter. She just tosses them aside and keeps going. Cassie knows what she wants to do. Her behavior is so odd and dismissive, but always seems to stay right on course.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By day, she works in a coffee shop for savvy owner Gail (Laverne Cox). They have their own rapport and Gail accepts Cassie\u2019s sarcasm with the clientele. She is just brazen in everything she does. Very confident and sassy, especially to her customers. When Ryan (Bo Burnham) orders coffee, she plays with him, trying to get a reaction which she does after she spits in his coffee in front of him. When he drinks it, it\u2019s game on. Will this change her attitude towards men?<\/p>\n

But there are a lot more twists to keep you curious as to what Cassie could possibly come up with to top her exploits up to now. She can be sweet as sugar or totally menacing in the blink of her eye. One of the most intense scenes in the film is when Cassie confronts the Dean of the Medical school about the incident that prompted her dropping out. It ends with a terrifying threat for this administrator and mother.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It all comes to a chilling climax at a bachelor party in a remote cabin. Fennell must\u2019ve stayed up nights thinking up these scenes. It took a few years including presenting a short at Sundance which piqued interest from Margot Robbie\u2019s production company. Robbie is a producer and even considered playing Cassie.\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”9918″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”9935″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”9928″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]Mulligan read the script and jumped at it.\u00a0 <\/span>She does the role justice in so many unexpected ways. Interesting that Mulligan and Fennell realized during the shoot that they had acted together in a TV detective show when they were both 18. Also amazing, Fennell was in her last trimester when she began shooting this, her first feature. And she delivered her baby girl 3 days after it wrapped.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The music is indicative of Cassie\u2019s activities, including Cyn\u2019s \u201cUh Oh\u201d and DeathbyRomy\u2019s \u201cCome and Play with Me,\u201d and a version of \u201cToxic\u201d by Anthony Willis.<\/p>\n

Even though the subject, and the way Mulligan and Fennell present it, brings some laughs and many nervous ones, the message is no laughing matter. Caution, this film is suitable for mature audiences, but maybe not for a first date. For Cassie, the best revenge is when you don\u2019t see it coming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Focus Features\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>1 hour 53 minutes \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>R<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In Theaters December 25th<\/em><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7i5kiFDunk8″ el_width=”80″ align=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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