Carey Mulligan film 'deeply troubling'

Carey Mulligan film 'deeply troubling'

By Onlykhabar News Media Mon 29 March, 2021 ( about 5 years ago ) 🎤859 Viewersentertainment

29-year-old Cassie Thomas goes to a nightclub alone and pretends to be drunk.

she does a convincing job. She is unsteady on her feet, her eyes unfocused, her speech slurred. It usually isn't long before an apparently kind man approaches and offers to help her get home. Except they don't take her home. More often than not, they find an excuse to take her back to their place instead, in the hope she's so drunk they'll be able to have sex with her. They ignore her comments about not feeling well or wanting to go to sleep. She isn't drunk at all, and the hunter is about to become the hunted. This is the premise of Promising Young Woman, a new film starring Carey Mulligan and directed by Emerald Fennell, and which has picked up five nominations for this year's Oscars.

"It's a huge part of hook-up culture, regrettably," she tells BBC News. "And there still isn't that much opprobrium on people who sleep with very drunk girls. It was absolutely commonplace when I was growing up, I think probably in most places it still is. Hearing the premise and watching the trailer, it would be easy to think Promising Young Woman is a feminist polemic which unfairly tarnishes all men with the same brush. But it's a bit more complicated than that. For one thing, there are several female characters in the film who also face Cassie's wrath over their own dubious behaviour. Whether it's the college dean who didn't properly investigate an assault accusation, or the friend of a rape victim who turns a blind eye. To varying degrees, there are multiple characters, of both sexes, who are complicit.

She adds: "I don't think it's a polemic against men, but it's a polemic against the culture that we all grew up in which tends to side with men more than it does with women." Promising Young Woman was due to come out last spring, not long after its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was delayed due to the pandemic, but early reviews were broadly positive. But glitzy awards ceremonies aside, it will be hard to ascertain how much impact the film will have. Promising Young Woman won't reach every person on the planet who needs to see it, which raises the question, how will society ever change its behaviour? "So often you find with apologies, when it comes to this sort of thing, that they're half-apologies and they do not take responsibility. And all Cassie is looking for is one person to say 'this is profoundly wrong, and you're right to be angry, this shouldn't have happened,' but nobody wants to because nobody wants to admit they've been part of something so dreadful."

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