On the whole I think this is a really good movie. It has echoes of Falling Down, of someone who has just HAD ENOUGH.
And rightly so. The writer/director takes on a very serious topic and tackles it face on. So it's amazing that it is done so without feeling preachy or a lecture. Instead it leans into the utter absurdity of a system that is so stacked against women and lets that do the talking.
My issue is with the end parts of the film. And it troubles me in the same way that shows like 13 Reasons Why troubled me. And it's the glorification of suicide. And yes while she was actually killed in Promising Young Woman, but it has the same pathos. She went in to die. She could have just used the tape, but she chose to go there and planned for her death.
It's that American 'mic drop' (although I know the writer/director in this case is British!). The desire to have the last word. The carefully orchestrated 'gotcha'. Sirens wailing, the timed messages, all with an audience...
But it isn't like that. Suicide is lonely. Murder is lonely. That's it, finito. There's no last word. There's no crowds there to see your achievements. And I have issues with TV and movies that portray otherwise.
And rightly so. The writer/director takes on a very serious topic and tackles it face on. So it's amazing that it is done so without feeling preachy or a lecture. Instead it leans into the utter absurdity of a system that is so stacked against women and lets that do the talking.
My issue is with the end parts of the film. And it troubles me in the same way that shows like 13 Reasons Why troubled me. And it's the glorification of suicide. And yes while she was actually killed in Promising Young Woman, but it has the same pathos. She went in to die. She could have just used the tape, but she chose to go there and planned for her death.
It's that American 'mic drop' (although I know the writer/director in this case is British!). The desire to have the last word. The carefully orchestrated 'gotcha'. Sirens wailing, the timed messages, all with an audience...
But it isn't like that. Suicide is lonely. Murder is lonely. That's it, finito. There's no last word. There's no crowds there to see your achievements. And I have issues with TV and movies that portray otherwise.