Written and Directed by: Emerald Fennell
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham
Won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
The beauty of the film is how the story unfolds, layer by layer. Initially we see that there's this woman who is playing games with men, and slowly we see reason behind why she's doing it. A lot of mysterious facts are casually placed in the film, like her dropping out of medical school, which could be a random fact, here they present it like it's her erratic nature, but later we know that there's more to it. At the end of the day, it's a rape revenge movie, but it beautifully talks about the idea of consent because it bases the entire premise of the movie on that. It reinforces the idea of consent, when a woman is drunk and can't make choices in that state. The film here and there goes into a psychological thriller zone, which I wish it went more into.
The men in this film are written super weirdly. It feels like a tit for tat competition for men writing one dimensional women. The film wants to show that even charming men, and "gentleman" could be dangerous, but it could've perhaps subverted some ideas by maybe showing conventionally creepy men to be actually safe. It's a well written film for sure, but I don't get why this film got a Best Original Screenplay.
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