Promising Young Woman
Movie • 2020 • Thriller
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A young woman haunted by a tragedy in her past takes revenge on the predatory men unlucky enough to cross her path.
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Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
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The main character leaves at the end without telling her parents where she went, and she doesn't expect to come back.
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Abuse
Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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A woman is brutally sexually assaulted in front of other men, watching. You hear some of the audio in a video, but you don't see anything.
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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Not necessarily THEIR abuser. But there is a scene, where the main character forgives a lawyer for defending rapists
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there's a dialogue in which someone says that a teenager is alone with a group of guys that might rape her, but then she says that it wasn't true (so the teenager is safe and we never see any violence towards her)
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Is someone stalked?
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The protagonist stalks a guy to take revenge on him.
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After loosing her friend, she is on a revenge spree to hunt down the man who did it to her. She intends to torture him with a scalpel
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After loosing her friend, she is on a revenge spree to hunt down the man who did it to her. She intends to torture him with a scalpel
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone gaslighted?
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The film is about cultural gaslighting and the way that society allows men to abuse women without any consequences to their own lives. Characters discuss how a woman had been sexually assaulted and none of her friends believed her at the time, reporting the assault had no result, and the woman's life was ruined, while the man was able to go on to a successful career, reputation, and relationship despite never having changed.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Though sometimes fake
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A character snorts lines of cocaine. He offers it to a woman, who refuses it, so he rubs it on her gums. Lots of drinking and discussing drinking alcohol to the point of blacking out. Someone's alcohol is drugged.
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Are there spiders?
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Daddy long legs
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Are there bugs?
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A brief view of flies and the sound of their buzzing.
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Assault
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The movie centers around a rape but it is never actually shown onscreen. At one point, we see the protagonist watch a video of the rape and become distressed, but we never see the video ourselves
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The first scene of the film shows a man targeting a woman who appears drunk in a bar. He kisses her and begins to undress her as she protests, although she stops it and nothing is shown further. In another scene, a man plies a woman with drugs and begins kissing her and touching her legs as she says she needs to go home, before she stops it and confronts him. Multiple characters discuss a sexual assault in the past where the person reporting it was doubted, spoken over, and intimidated into silence. A woman sets up another woman to have an experience where she wonders if she had been assaulted or not. Someone recorded a video of a sexual assault and it was sent around. People regularly refuse to take responsibility for their part in a sexual assault.
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Is rape mentioned?
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There are mentions of rape throughout the whole movie
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Are there jokes about sexual assault on men?
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I wouldn’t necessarily describe it as a joke but the movie really does depict men as ONLY being the assailants of sexual assault and doesn’t do very well acknowledging that rape doesn’t only happen to women. If you’re a man and have been SA’d this is not the movie for you. This movie is sickening and though the attempted point was admirable it’s really just a f***ed up trauma fest that paints a false narrative. (For example the scene where the guy says “getting accused of rape is a man’s biggest fear” and protag says “want to know what a woman’s biggest fear is?” Which is monumentally disrespectful to male sexual abuse victims like myself. Don’t waste your time.
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Is someone restrained?
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The antagonist is handcuffed to a bed near the end of the movie.
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Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Not someone's mouth specifically but someone's face is covered with a pillow
Not someone's mouth specifically but someone's face is covered with a pillow
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Is someone drugged?
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The protagonist mentions to having served an altered vodka to a group of men, but onscreen you can only see them drinking. However, it is showed a guy trying to drug the protagonist by rubbing her teeth with cocaine without her consent
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Bodily Harm
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Is someone tortured?
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Yes, but not in the slasher kind of way. More psychologically.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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From above “ A woman tells someone that another woman carries around scissors for the purpose of cutting off men's penises. Later, a woman opens a kit with scalpels, suggesting that she intends to castrate a man, but it doesn't go further than that.”
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Does a head get squashed?
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No, but someone’s head is held under a pillow until she suffocates.
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Is there cannibalism?
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She’s eating something with human blood dripping down her arm as she does so.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Cutting is threatened and prepared for but does not take place.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Spoiler!! : There is a lengthy scene near the end in which the antagonist suffocates the protagonist to death.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Prolonged suffocation scene when the protagonist goes to confront the rapist at his bachelor party. He ends up suffocating her with a pillow. It is a long and gruesome scene to watch.
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Are any hands damaged?
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When the main character is burned, her hand is seen falling out of the fire. Which is then kicked back into the fire pit
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When the main character is burned, her hand is seen falling out of the fire. Which is then kicked back into the fire pit
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Is someone choked?
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No one is ever choked but a character is suffocated with a pillow
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Is someone burned alive?
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Someone's body is burned though.
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Children
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Is an infant abducted?
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not an infant but a teenager is abducted from school
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Main character confronts the head of the rapist group of men, knowing she might not make it out alive. Which she doesnt.
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Main character confronts the head of the rapist group of men, knowing she might not make it out alive. Which she doesnt.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Does a family member die?
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Parents lose a child. The mother of a girl that committed suicide before the events of the film is also shown grieving.
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Does someone cheat?
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Cheating is not on camera.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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In more than one situation, someone is lured to a location by a shady character with malicious intent. However this may not qualify as kidnapping.
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Fear
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Scalpels are shown in one scene.
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Are there mannequins?
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Anatomical skeleton in at least two scenes
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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When a body is being burned one person comes very close but doesn’t
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Does someone spit?
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The protagonist spits in a cup of coffee after being asked if she wanted to
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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spoilers: the movie ends with police saving the day and arresting the villain. this is presented in a very strange ‘justice is served’ kind of way
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
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Medical
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Does someone have cancer?
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Though for one line cancer is mentioned.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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The protagonist's love interest works at a hospital.
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Mental Health
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Though it is never shown, but it is talked about and it's what drives the protagonist.
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only discussed, and it takes place before the movie.
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A traumatized woman regularly places herself into dangerous situations to take revenge on men who prey on women. She does this at the expense of everything: her well-being, her relationships, her family, her health, and eventually her actual life.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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The protagonist suffers from PTSD due to a traumatic event in her past. The event is basically what drives the plot of the movie.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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The protagonist's best friend experienced dysmorphia after being raped, as described by the protagonist, leading to her suicide.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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PTSD.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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There are several scenes with people in extreme distress: once with the ex-lawyer, and a final one near the end of the movie with a man handcuffed to a bed and unable to escape.
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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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The clubs scenes had flashing lights and one scene with flashing lights gave a bit of a headache
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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When the character pretends to be drunk, they’re actually watching other patrons
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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At the bachelor party there are two men wearing fake bare breast plates as a joke. It is more misogynistic than transmisogynistic, but still hits the same note.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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A woman is called a psycho, sociopath, crazy, etc
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Is there hate speech?
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The movie has a lot of hate speech directed at women. A group of men discuss at a bar the fact that a woman can't come with them to a golf or strip club, but place the responsibility on her. Male construction workers shout insults at a woman who doesn't respond to their catcalling. Many people blame another woman for her own assault because she was drinking and say that she invited it.
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Is there aphobia?
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Sorta? The parents of the protagonist seem to be relieved she finally has a romantic partner. Another woman tells the protagonist she'll have her own children. Subtle implications about the expectations for the protagonist. She may not be on the ace spectrum, but is still subjected to a heteronormative society.
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
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The film features many scenes of the lead-up to sex, and there is a lot of discussion of sex, but no sex is depicted on screen. A woman discusses a man "putting his fingers inside" her. A mention of a**l sex. Crude descriptions of women and their bodies. Implications or discussions of sexual assaults
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Is someone sexually objectified?
55 supporters
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not really by the movie itself, but by the characters
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Is there BDSM?
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In the main characters last act of deceiving men, she is seen putting the man in handcuffs on the bed which is meant to be followed by Knifeplay which is more of intended torture
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In the main characters last act of deceiving men, she is seen putting the man in handcuffs on the bed which is meant to be followed by Knifeplay which is more of intended torture
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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He cries when he is forced to confront the consequences of raping a woman, so it's not really that he's ridiculed for being a crying male, but because he's pathetic and only feeling sorry for himself instead of feeling any guilt for his actions.
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Sickness
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Is someone terminally ill?
29 supporters
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A man says that a child is dying of leukemia, then reveals it to be a joke.
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Nobody has a stroke
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Social
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Are there fat suits?
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i didn’t see any
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
89 supporters
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I don't believe anyone got justice, the guy was only arrested for killing her and nobody was punished for any instance of rape. The ending is sad and the movie acts like it's happy with happy music, that and the long rape-like murder scene is incredibly triggering.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
34 supporters
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No but someone smashes a cars windscreen with a crowbar while the driver is still inside
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Is someone hit by a car?
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A car doesn't hit her but she hits a truck with a tool
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
83 supporters
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There's a fake out where a red liquid is shown, but it's not blood.
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