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Promising Young Woman marries dark comedy with #MeToo revenge fantasy spurred by campus rape culture – ABC News
Promising Young Woman stars Carey Mulligan as a young woman determined to mete out retribution to those involved in a traumatic incident from her past.
Revenge is a dish served bold in Promising Young Woman, an ambitious, erratic dark comedy starring Carey Mulligan (The Great Gatsby; Shame) as a man-baiting loner haunted by the college sexual assault of her best friend.
Content warning: the film reviewed deals with sexual assault and rape.
It’s a movie directly, unapologetically ripped from the headlines around campus rape from a few years ago, in which “promising” read: affluent, white young men were routinely excused from assault charges, or…
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