Michael Welch
Noelle, an art student struggling to find her voice, is sexually assaulted by a fellow classmate. Attempting to cope with her trauma, she impulsively confronts her attacker, leading to a violent altercation that culminates in his accidental death. Noelle tries to return to normalcy, but when she discovers that she is only one of many silenced sexual assault survivors on campus, she takes justice into her own hands. A vigilante is born, retribution is the inspiration she s been waiting for.
Rape-revenge films are changing: They now focus on the women, instead of their dads
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The Conversation: Rape-revenge films are changing - they now focus on the women, instead of their dads
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(MENAFN - The Conversation) Narratives around sexual assault in Hollywood are changing â on screen and off.
There is a longstanding genre of film dedicated to depicting the crime of rape as it affects the fathers of the victims, showing fathers dishing out violent retribution.
Contemporary directors have been moving away from depictions like this, with many films choosing to complicate the simplistic morality of their predecessors.
But these films have generally been low-budget affairs with limited cinematic runs â unlike the budgets and stars pumped into stories about fathers, like Taken (2008) and Death Wish (2018).
With the success of 2020 s Promising Young Woman , it is likely there will be more revisionist films like these reaching wide audiences and critical acclaim.
Much like a horror movie,
Promising Young Woman opens with a kill scene. (Or does it? The film remains coy on this point for a moment.) A clique of men in business suits gather around a loud, pulsating bar, bitching about how they can’t even go to strip clubs on the company dime anymore. The camera pans over to Cassandra draped over a red vinyl booth in Christlike repose, so wasted she doesn’t seem to notice that her skirt has risen up far enough to expose her underwear. Jerry (Brody), the gentleman of the group, offers to take her home, only to “change his mind” and bring her back to his apartment mid-ride share. He made his choice, and now he’ll pay for it as Mulligan reveals when her expression changes from sloppy to stone-cold sober like the flip of a switch. She’s not a lost lamb but a hunter on the prowl, and Jerry here is about to learn his lesson about taking advantage of drunk women.