Nothing in Cassie’s life is what it appears to be — she’s wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she’s living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs from the past.
Q-tips say: Mr. Q liked it more than Mrs. Q.
Mrs. Q says: Promising Young Woman is a complex, thought-provoking film that critiques rape culture, gender roles, and the societal failure to hold perpetrators accountable. “Promising Young Woman” is as confident as its protagonist, a film that’s willing to be a little messy and inconsistent in a way that reflects Cassie’s existence. She works in a coffee shop and has supportive parents, but every day is filled with the reminder of what she’s lost. She sits at night looking at photos of her best friend when they were young.
This film is an in depth look at what happens when victims of sexual assault or rape don’t get taken seriously. This is a very hard movie to watch for some, but it might be a new standard that we set on how movies about these topics are handled.