Promising Young Woman is a rape revenge movie but it has a distinctly different look and feel to its iconic predecessors – movies like I Spit on Your Grave and Last House on the Left. Partly this is because the assault isn’t actually shown. But it’s also because of the aesthetic of the movie and in particular the costumes.
Debut director Emerald Fennell creates a world of color and music and humor for her characters – primarily our avenging angel, Cassie, played by Carey Mulligan, to talk about rape culture from a very female perspective. During the day Cassie works in a coffee shop and dresses in pastels and pinks. She has a soft and playful look, with light make-up and perfectly manicured fingernails. But at night when she feigns drunkenness in nightclubs she wears a variety of different costumes. The way Cassie dresses – and how that is celebrated in...
Debut director Emerald Fennell creates a world of color and music and humor for her characters – primarily our avenging angel, Cassie, played by Carey Mulligan, to talk about rape culture from a very female perspective. During the day Cassie works in a coffee shop and dresses in pastels and pinks. She has a soft and playful look, with light make-up and perfectly manicured fingernails. But at night when she feigns drunkenness in nightclubs she wears a variety of different costumes. The way Cassie dresses – and how that is celebrated in...
- 1/15/2021
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
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