I have to admit I thought Fennell had written herself into a corner-it felt like nothing could possibly satisfy Cassie’s emotional arc-but then she pushes right through that corner with a final act that will divide audiences but I admire for its audacity the more I sit with it. And there’s a sense that even going right to the people who caused this pain can only do so much, which is then enhanced by an intense final act. Look at the notebook with the names of the men she’s taught a lesson-there are dozens of them. It’s a film about a woman searching for catharsis that she’ll simply never find. Trauma often makes for swings of mood and decision making, and Mulligan and Fennel never forget that Cassie is a traumatized person, taking out her pain on the patriarchal system that enabled it.
“Promising Young Woman” is a tonal roller coaster, but that’s part of the point. This spurs Cassie on to an endgame to her lessons about male privilege and moral authority, finally going after the people who helped destroy her best friend. However, Ryan also reveals that the man who sent Cassie on this spiral of grief and trauma is back in the United States after spending time in London. Burnham and Mulligan have solid chemistry, and Fennell doesn’t rush their courtship, making it feel more genuine and believable that Cassie would let her guard down for the first time in a long time. First, she reunites with an old classmate named Ryan ( Bo Burnham), and the two start dating. Two events propel Cassie into rethinking her strategy. Cassie is trying to dismantle that system one shitty guy at a time. Fennell reveals what happened to Nina slowly in “Promising Young Woman,” but it’s clear she was a victim of not just one privileged man but a system that protected the criminal over the accuser.
Dropping out of med school years ago after an undefined trauma involving her best friend Nina, she works at a coffee shop now, and entraps men at night into revealing that their own perception of their moral code is a form of denial. Cassie, the heroine of Emerald Fennell’s ambitious debut “Promising Young Woman,” has an interesting hobby.
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