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    Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)

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    I'm the problem it's me DFA1979's Avatar
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    Heh I remember seeing a trailer for this when I went to Birds of Prey back in February. Looks good.
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    And it's happened once again
    I'll turn to a friend
    Someone that understands
    And sees through the master plan
    But everybody's gone
    And I've been here for too long
    To face this on my own
    Well, I guess this is growing up

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    I love everything about this from the premise to Carey Mulligan's performance and Fennell's direction, especially her visual eye. The colors pop in every location and the wide shots are framed as if conversations like the one between Cassie and Madison in the restaurant are taking place here and now in our society.

    Then the ending happened and my rating went down a whole point. Thoughts on it under the tag:

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    A case where big-picture structure and bracing endgame help paper over some in-the-moment screenwriting clunkiness. The first half-hour especially feels so wobbly and scattered in approach, almost seeming content to just toss off culture tropes and buzzwords as plot in place of its own details and identity. One can argue that it is writer-director Emerald Fennell's tactic all along to lull viewers into a false sense of security of what kind of film this is going to be, but even then the plot/dialogue writing should be way tighter and snappier.

    Still, the film's focus tightens fearsomely as it goes along, and the way Fennell finally pulls the rug out under us is really something. She has walked a knife-edged tonal line of black comedy, between bleakness and fantasy, for most of the film, and the subversive finale she has concocted up is the ultimate of have your candy-coated cake and viciously eat it down too, bringing the two seemingly irreconcilable tones together most stunningly. And apart from Carey Mulligan's justifiably hyped, ferocious turn, the film does a killer casting of current TV clean-faced funnymen as key supporting players too. 8/10
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    This movie is brilliant.

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    Quote Quoting Ivan Drago (view post)
    I love everything about this from the premise to Carey Mulligan's performance and Fennell's direction, especially her visual eye. The colors pop in every location and the wide shots are framed as if conversations like the one between Cassie and Madison in the restaurant are taking place here and now in our society.

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    Pretty much agree. The first half hour in particular is biting. Seeing McLovin doing coke while babbling about David Foster Wallace and how he wants to write his own "gritty" novel set in NYC made me feel SEEN (well I don't do coke, but ya know).

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    I do like the look of this. I assume this is Los Angeles, because if it's not, they sure didn't do a very good job of making it NOT Los Angeles. Not sure if they ever specifically say. All the men seem very Los Angeles as well. And Carey Mulligan is of course excellent, as is all the casting of "oh hey it's so-and-so" of television and film.
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    Agree on your points, especially Brie's character.

    I gathered Los Angeles as well, with the bachelor party being in Ojai somewhere (north of LA).

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    The treatment of the subject matter is for the most part very sound and the script excels at subverting our expectations of a revenge movie, but I still found a lot of this pretty bland for some reason I can't entirely pinpoint - maybe I'm too removed from a lot of the stereotypes it parodies to find it that poignant. Unlike a lot of you guys, I found everything after the big twist pretty exciting since I didn't see it coming at all. That scene was Tarantino-esque in its defiance of expected plot developments.

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