Promising Young Woman 4K 2020

Evening. An ordinary American bar. Three guys drinking and hunting. It's Friday night, so the game is bigger and more accessible. Here, for example, is that drunk girl: all looking for a phone, so helpless ... The bravest of the company comes closer, invites a ride home, but they're already in his lair. He dreams of getting the defenseless girl, but then it turns out that she was sober all this time.

That's how evenings after work go for Cassie, once a straight-A student and now a conniving vigilante who keeps her own list of victims. Something has happened in her life, and we are left to guess and anxiously watch a very unusual life of a girl.

This picture is a directorial debut for Emiral Fennel. It can be seen almost immediately: a small budget, a couple of quotes from Wes Anderson, unrestrained love for style and gloss. But the main plus of the movie is the script.

It is beautifully and competently written, and all Chekhov's guns hang on excellent, good quality nails. The action does not sag, everything is clearly calibrated. And I'm just afraid, retelling the plot, to make any of these guns accidentally go off and spoil the whole surprise.

I'll just say that 'Promising Young Woman' is a brilliant and moderately erotic thriller with excellent acting: the enchanting Cassie is played by Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan, and her classmate Ryan is played by famous stand-up comic Bo Burnham. He went into filmmaking not too long ago, and he did very well in a serious dramatic role.

Such movie debuts are proof that modern cinema is never dead, and directors like Fennell will save the world of moving pictures more than once and more than twice.