Description: Because life in the dark is wonderful.
Each Oscar season, I try to see as many of the major nominees as possible before the show, which makes it more fun to root for certain movies over others. For the 2020 Awards, I managed to see every movie nominated for Best Picture except Promising Young Woman . Nomadland won that year, but I was pulling for Judas and the Black Messiah .
I never actually sat down to watch Promising Young Woman until reviewing this 4H UHD release. No real reason…I just never got around to it. But if I had seen it prior to that Oscar night, this is the movie I would’ve been rooting for to win…not just Best Picture, but Carey Mulligan for Best Actress and Emerald Fennell for Best Director. But at least she won an award for her screenplay, which is well deserved.
Promising Young Woman is ostensibly a revenge film, but unlike any I've ever seen (and I’ve seen plenty). Mulligan plays Cassie, a medical school dropout who lives with her beleaguered parents and works as a barista. Each night, however, she cruises bars pretending to be completely hammered and luring men into trying to sexually assault her while she’s passed out. They’re horrified when Cassie reveals she’s completely sober, which says a lot about what type of people they are.