It is not the first time that the cinema tells of one donna what he wants take revenge on man rapist, but until yesterday the theme was that of lawfulness compared touse of violence (the most significant film of this genre still seems to me “Beyond all limits”, with the blonde Farrah Fawcett who abandons makeup and hairdressing to wear i the clothes of the avenger) in an escalation that saw women take over reasoning and male behaviors. With the film by Emerald Fennell (which many will have seen in the role of Camilla Parker Bowles in the series “The Crown”) there perspective changes completely: it is not so much a question of whether or not revenge is legitimate but rather of one reflection on raping potential of the male so that the woman has no choice but to behave consequence.
Or so it does Cassie (diminutive of Cassandra: omen name), who goes to trendy clubs on Saturday nights pretending to be dizzy from alcohol. He continues in his game until someone does boarded it and with the excuse of helping her he takes it home ready to jump on her. Only then does Cassie reveal deception, come back completely mistress of herself and inflicts one on the boy on duty lesson that humiliates him and hopefully gets certain ideas out of his head.
It is only after having us follow a couple of these performance that the film (written by the director herself and awarded with the Oscar for best original work) begins to show us who really is young protagonista, a cui Carey Mulliganoffers an interpretation subtly and skillfully disturbing. Cassie is thirty, she was one promising student of medicine he has dropped out of studies and who drags herself between two very middle class parents (Clancy Brown and Jennifer Coolidge) who don’t know how to push her out of the house, so much so that on her birthday they find nothing more explicit than to give her a suitcase. And in the meantime he works with little enthusiasm in Gail’s coffee shop (Laverne Cox, whose Italian dubbing entrusted to Roberto Pedicini at the beginning was considered insulting to a transgender actor like Cox. Hence the remake that delayed the release of the film (which will be released in theaters on Thursday 24 June).
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«A promising woman», the images of the film with Carey Mulligan nominated for 4 Golden Globes
At the origin of this species of apathy and his raid there is the weekly trauma which marked his university life: rape who suffered her friend Nina and her successor suicide when he found that no one wanted to stand up for him. A tragedy that turned Cassie into a “angel of vengeance“(And the parallels with the Ferrara film of the same name should be explored more: not so much for the violence with which the tailor Thana there wanted eliminate males but for the game of disguises with which he attracted his victims) but which seems to enter into crisis when he meets Ryan (Bo Burnham), his former study colleague and now a pediatric surgeon.
What better for make peace with the male gender and perhaps open up to thatlove which one is always voluntarily denied? Until Ryan learns that the responsible for the rape of Nina, Al (Chris Lowell) is getting married and is throwing a bachelor party. For a while we follow Cassie who finds the same pharisaic and hairy beliefs in the head of medicine and the lawyer who defended Al, but then the film takes a different step why the vendetta does not spare any twist. And the viewer is faced with something that he did not expect, narratively but also – if I am allowed – ideologically.
If at the beginning the protagonist it seemed perfect incarnation of the plus component claiming of the movement #MeToo, ready to let the male experience – at least on a psychological and moral level – what women usually suffer, in the second part the film reconnects to stories of revenge that we mentioned higher up, going down one china which seems to have only one possible way out (and which is not the easiest one imaginable: the film holds many surprises). Pressing the pedal towards a radicality that will amaze someone and do reflect somebody else.
June 20, 2021 (change June 21, 2021 | 10:48)
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