Promising Young Woman: 'The balance has been tilted for so long to believing men'
Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman.
A young woman in crumpled business attire is drunk and alone in a bar. She is fumbling around looking for her lost phone. A man in a work suit, tie loosened and collar unbuttoned, cracks a few “jokes” with his friends at her expense before going over under the guise of “helping her get home”.
Except he doesn’t help her get home, but instead takes her back to his place, hoping she’s too far gone to resist his advances. It’s a scenario that, in pre-pandemic times, might seem painfully familiar.
