I just wanted to take a short moment to show some appreciate
for an upcoming film that is exactly what I want to see at the cinema.
When the trailer dropped for ‘Promising Young Woman’ my
first thought was; the book ‘Promising Young Women’ had been adapted already?
But the slight difference of one letter made all the difference. This was not what
I thought it was, it was something far more delicious.
A woman (Carey Mulligan) goes out every week, pretends to be drunk,
completely out of it, waits for a ‘nice guy’ to come to her rescue and call him
out on his s**t, basically. There is obviously a bit more to the story with how
she was meant to become a doctor and past trauma hinted at which will all be
revealed when the film is released in April but I for one, cannot wait for this
film. Penned and directed by British filmmaker Emerald Fennell (you may know
that name from ‘Killing Eve’ credits). She isn’t exactly an up and coming creative,
as she has a fair few credits to her name but this is her feature film debut
and I think I’m going to love her very much.
The story and film have been described as simple as ‘a ‘dangerous
woman’ revenge thriller’ and this stuck with me. The subject is a woman ‘calling
out’ men for their wrongful actions which apparently makes her dangerous? The
rest of the story could legitimately be a revenge story but to call a woman
dangerous because she catches so called nice guys who would assault drunken or vulnerable
women is irritating. This might just be me who is annoyed by this irksome description
but I wouldn’t say she was dangerous. We don’t see in the trailer after she reveals
she’s not drunk what actually happens, just that she tallies them up in a
notebook with either red or blue ink. The revenge thriller is usually saved for
a woman who wronged and she seeks, well, revenge but this might have a
different origin or slightly skewed one at least.
It premieres at Sundance Film Festival in January and released
in April so who the hell knows if that means in the UK as well or if we have to
wait a billion months to see it, we’ll just have to wait and see. In the meantime,
we can enjoy this fantastic poster.
