In recent years, there have been more and more movies under the banner of "cool films".
Cool film, as the name suggests, is to let the audience see "cool", either the plot is straight into the ground without adding to the blockage, or it presents the most shocking visual scene.
In short, what the audience wants to see, the cool film will give you what it wants.
At the beginning of 2021, the emergence of a "women's cool film" has attracted attention, and the heroine has become an emotionless "female killer", pretending to be drunk in the middle of the night to lure men into the bait, and completing the counter-killing.
The coolness of the film is in: the big heroine "kill the scum man"!
The film is called:
"The Girl with a Bright Future"
The film is a "female killer" anti-routine revenge scumbag story, the heroine Cathy during the day incarnated as a migrant worker to work in the coffee shop, but at night she changed into sexy clothes again and again, appeared in major nightclub bars.
She often pretends to be drunk to attract some malicious nightclub gentlemen, and after pretending to be "tricked" by men to the residence, The prepared Casey pretends to wake up and humiliates the scumbag.
Watching the colored and colorless men running away, Cathy enjoyed it.
She repeats this behavior every day, and every time she hunts a scumbag, she draws a stroke on her own little book.
She fooled men at night and became the "emotional killer" of scumbags.
Behind such a persona, there is a sad past that Cathy does not want to mention.
Before becoming a scumbag killer, she was a female student at a medical school, and at a campus party, her girlfriend Nina was sexually assaulted by a male classmate while drunk, and was filmed and uploaded to the Internet.
Overwhelmed, Nina chose to commit suicide, and Cathy, who blamed herself for failing to protect Nina, also chose to drop out of school, and the lives of the two girls who had a bright future changed.
By chance, Cathy heard the news that the male classmate who sexually assaulted Nina in the past was about to get married, and after the live video of the incident was dug up, she recalled the painful memories of the past.
At this time, she is already a "scumbag killer", she decides to disguise herself as a stripper, sneak into the party of the culprit of the year, and launch a final revenge on the other party for Nina and for herself...
The film is starred by British actress Kerry Mulligan, who used to show her pure image as a charming and charming "female killer" in the film, and mulligan was pregnant at the time of filming.
The director is Emerald Fennell, the female screenwriter of "Killing Eve", which is her directorial debut at the age of 36, and she brings us this film called "women's cool film" from a female perspective.
Let's follow the rhythm of the film and talk about how many cool points this women's cool film has, right?
Scumbags, a "handbook for discerning men" that unveils the hypocrisy of scumbags
The film is a female perspective film, from the perspective of the female protagonist Cathy, it presents us with a scumbag male sentient being, all the male characters in the film are almost all scumbags, and the style is not heavy, it can be said that it is a collection of "garbage men" in Yang Kasa's mouth.
There are hunting men in the bar, they specially pick drunk girls to start, in order to help them go home as a reason to take the opportunity to rub oil, the action is more than one excessive.
In public, they look like gentlemen, and their nature is slowly revealed when there is no one around.
There are also group players, in a group of satyrs, they express vulgar bad tastes without any cover, and even invite strippers to "walk" for the groom on the eve of their wedding.
There is also a high-ranking scumbag who looks Sven but is a beast on the inside, and the only time the heroine moves her true feelings in the film is to fall in love with Ryan, a harmless high school classmate who looks harmless.
He is usually gentle and elegant, and treats girls politely, but after the heroine discovers that Ryan has also been involved in the sexual assault case, the "well-behaved man" also takes off his hypocritical mask and reveals his original form.
Even the roadside passers-by are "scum", and they comment on the coolly dressed girls without any cover.
Director Fennell from his own female perspective, portrayed a disgusting scumbag face, with these scumbags as a background board, the heroine's beating of scumbags makes people look very relieved.
Contrary to routine, an atypical "female killer" revenge road
Film history has many classic female killer images, Uma Thurman in "Kill Bill" is beautiful and sassy, and Sharon Stone in "Ben-Neng" performs the sense of snake and scorpion beauty.
The image of "female killer" is clean and neat, and one by one men are either toyed with between the palms of their hands, or they are turned into slag by seconds.
In contrast, the killer style of the heroine of this film, who also targets the male group, is somewhat atypical.
First of all, she did not have a specific target at the beginning, mainly indiscriminate attacks, and "hit" whoever was scummy when she saw them, enjoying the process of humiliating them.
Even if it is a man who is not inferior to the roadside, the direct heroine raises her hand to be a hammer.
Even more than just targeting the scumbag, the female classmate who mocked the victim was drunk by her, and then asked a strange man to send it back to feel the same sense of helplessness.
The female principal, who did not admit to the campus sexual assault case, also pretended to have kidnapped her daughter, making the other party nervous.
Secondly, her attack is not strong, and the "killer" taste is very light.
For the scumbag who is hooked, she neither asks for money nor harms his life, she is more just punishing and warning the other party. Either verbal humiliation or publicity, the most violent act is to give a hammer at best.
Even, as a "female killer", she can't beat the villain, and the natural disadvantage of women compared to men in strength makes her even suffer losses.
Compared with the difficult cold female killers in other works, the female killers here have a pitifully low combat power.
It is worth mentioning that many clips in the film pay tribute to Sharon Stone's performance in "Instinct", including tying up a man on the bed and preparing to start, including imitating Sha Jie's classic sitting posture.
However, compared to Sister Sha's domineering side leak, Mulligan's role is more like a weak female power fighter than a female killer.
Focus on the topic of sexual assault, a cool film that makes people watch not too "cool"
As the film gradually deepens, the seemingly cool plot gradually moves towards a heavy tone, and the director focuses on the topic of women being violated.
Instead of portraying the victims positively, she exposes this heart-wrenching social fact from the attitude of the perpetrators who do not care and the indifferent mentality of the bystanders.
In the film, the heroine's girlfriend chose to end her life because of sexual assault, and in the process of the heroine's revenge for her girlfriend, we see people who ignore female sexual assault and even have double standards.
The boys who committed evil at that time hung "We were still children at that time" and "We were all drunk" in their mouths to accuse the heroine of messing around.
And the female classmate who made the video public also dumped the victim, blaming her for not drinking so much in the first place.
The headmistress who sheltered the boys also forgot about this crime at the beginning, thinking that the great future of young people should not be ruined by sexual assault allegations.
But when she heard that her daughter was in the same room with a group of boys at the moment, she couldn't sit still immediately, wasn't this a typical double standard?
These scenes all reveal what kind of unfavorable social environment women face when they are violated, and the logic of collapsing the three views one by one makes people angry.
And the heroine who is difficult to fight with two fists and four hands, and who fights alone without support, also seems to be somewhat powerless in the face of this social chaos. In the end, she was forced to choose a tragic way to say no to sexual assault.
Although the final ending is still a standard revenge ending, the process and the price paid are not at all easy, and people have some mixed feelings after watching it.
Overall, "Girl with a Bright Future" is an anti-routine female cool film, no matter how "scummy" the male characters in the film are, these people who hurt women are eventually punished.
At the same time, it is also a tragic social film, whether it is the heroine or the girlfriend, they are originally girls with a bright future, but because of the sexual assault incident, one suicide ended his life, and the other dropped out of school to embark on the road of revenge, "Bright future" is an irony of the cruel reality.
In addition to the cool film style, the film also launched an emphasis and appeal on the protection of women from abuse, which also gives the film some more realistic thinking.
According to a canadian broadcasting corporation's anonymous survey of more than 4,000 female students between the ages of 14 and 21, a whopping 15 per cent of girls said they had been sexually assaulted to varying degrees, meaning that 3 out of every 20 people experienced similar distress.
Behind the set of cruel data, the neglect of public opinion and the original sin imposed on the victims are even more chilling.
It is with such a cruel background that "Girls with Bright Futures" ruthlessly exposes the ugliness of the "scumbags" and the unspeakable reality of all walks of life, and calls on the girls to learn to fight back in order to avoid the dirty hands behind them.
The future is bright, and every girl deserves it.
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