Promising Young Woman-Review

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 Promising Young Woman (2020 US) Its #femaleFilmmakerFriday and todays film is from Emerald Fennell. Cool Name. Cassie lives out her trauma trolling night club predators. There is a lot going on in this film so the logline doesn't really cut it. However, one of the takeaways here is don't mess with Cassie. This film had some neonoir vibes but in style it did not reach that level. I know the trend is to use bright colors to create the contrast for noir style in film. I don't like it. My opinion is that bright colors are too "happy" for noir. However, the color grading was great and production design was fabulous. At it's heart, Promising Young Woman is a revenge story, a very clever revenge story. Fennell should make a vengeance trilogy like Park Chan-Wook. It was really on that level. Young Woman won an Oscar for the writing (Fennell) and was nominated in other categories including Best Picture and Best Director which lost to Nomadland and Chloe Zaou. Fennell is a promising young woman. She is in production on the upcoming movie "Barbie". "Boy Howdy" talk about a complete tonal flip. I'm looking forward to that one. It looks funny and weird. Fennell, if you are listening go for the vengeance trilogy next. You can even call it the "Payback Series" or "Eff around and find out series". You can have those. My gift to you. Find it on Amazon and for rent on most streaming.

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