{"id":136958,"date":"2020-12-19T00:31:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T21:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-howl-of-rage-at-sexual-predators\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T00:31:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T21:31:12","slug":"a-howl-of-rage-at-sexual-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-howl-of-rage-at-sexual-predators\/","title":{"rendered":"#A howl of rage at sexual predators"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A howl of rage at sexual predators<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Running time: 114 min. Rated R (violence, language, drug use).\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

If ever there was a movie worth venturing back to the theater for, it\u2019s this blistering horror-comedy. <\/p>\n

By turns acidly funny and genuinely upsetting, \u201cPromising Young Woman\u201d stars Carey Mulligan as an avenging heroine for our time, and its gut-punch twists promise big audience reactions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mulligan is Cassandra, a caustic 30-year-old whose life has been mysteriously derailed. A med school star who suddenly dropped out, she\u2019s moved back in with her parents (Jennifer Coolidge and Clancy Brown), works a dead-end coffee shop job, and has seemingly no relationships or friends other than her kindhearted boss (Laverne Cox).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cassie\u2019s sole mission is going to bars, playing sloppy-drunk, then dropping the act just as she\u2019s about to be preyed on by a self-proclaimed \u201cnice guy\u201d who\u2019s taken her home with him. Not since \u201cThelma and Louise\u201d have would-be predators had the tables turned on them so memorably, and Mulligan (\u201cWildlife\u201d) gives a powerhouse performance, coating Cassie\u2019s white-hot anger in silky sarcasm.<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s cloying refrain \u2014 \u201cBut I\u2019m a nice guy!\u201d \u2014 comes up over and over, and writer\/director Emerald Fennell (showrunner for the second season of \u201cKilling Eve,\u201d whose colorful punk-tinged visuals are echoed here) has assembled a who\u2019s who of genial cinematic dudes: Adam Brody, Chris Lowell, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Sam Richardson and Max Greenfield. Lanky comedian and director Bo Burnham (\u201cEighth Grade\u201d) plays Ryan, a different sort: He\u2019s an admirer of Cassie\u2019s from med school whose bone-dry wit breaks through her antisocial<\/a> resolve.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Carey Mulligan and Bo Burnham in \u201cPromising Young Woman.\u201d<\/figcaption>
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Gradually, Fennell doles out clues. Alison Brie and Connie Britton show up as voices of willful indifference, with Britton\u2019s academic dean a stand-in for countless dismissors of rape accusations: \u201cWhat would you have me do, ruin a young man\u2019s life?\u201d The film\u2019s title seems to wink at a quote from the judge who, in 2016, declared Stanford rapist Brock Turner a promising young man before delivering a wrist slap of a sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPromising Young Woman\u201d is one hell of a feature writing\/directing debut, distilling the experiences of disbelieved, discarded women throughout history into one character\u2019s obsession. <\/p>\n

The Cassandra of Greek mythology was a rape victim and a cursed visionary: She could predict the future, but would never be believed. Her modern-day incarnation embodies a howl of rage against every sexual predator camouflaged in business casual. I\u2019m betting an awful lot of women will find Fennell\u2019s vision hard to shake. I know I did.\u00a0\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#A howl of rage at sexual predators” Running time: 114 min. Rated R (violence, language, drug use). If ever there was a movie worth venturing back to the theater for, it\u2019s this blistering horror-comedy. By turns acidly funny and genuinely upsetting, \u201cPromising Young Woman\u201d stars Carey Mulligan as an avenging heroine for our time, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/promising-young-woman-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[86955,72115,7598],"class_list":["post-136958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-18-20","tag-carey-mulligan","tag-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}