Review by Gabe Kaminsky

A feminist revenge story about a barista who dropped out of medical school because her friend Nina was gang-raped.

To combat all the “horrible” and “rapey” men in America, Cassie pretends to be blackout drunk and lures men back to her place, only to let up the act and condemn them for trying to take advantage of her. The protagonist poses as a rock band staffer to the medical school dean who dismissed her classmate’s rape case without evidence and befriends the woman’s daughter. Then, Cassie threatens the dean by telling her she dropped her daughter Amber at a college party with drunk college kids, trying to gain information about Nina’s death.

“Promising Young Woman” aims to communicate that all men in America are out to subdue and wreck women, especially on the college campus. In one scene in the film, Cassie laughs at the idea that an individual accused of rape would be innocent until proven guilty. The film is a full-on Me Too embrace, satirizing the important notion of due process.

This film perpetuates the evil stereotype that our fellow Americans are doomed, awful, irredeemable people. It aims to instruct and vilify, not to entertain with nuanced storytelling. The film only contributes to the great divide in this country and is no doubt the rallying cry for the modern-day feminist on leftist college campuses and beyond.