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Yeah no, I’m not quite sure that’s the movie’s point. Promising Young Woman doesn’t argue that violence or rape culture can be solved by men simply “learning,” nor does it offer neat moral lessons that restore order. It’s deliberately bleak about how little changes, repeatedly pointing to institutional failure, social complicity, and how consequences are usually avoided unless they’re forcibly imposed. There IS revenge, but not the cathartic, triumphant kind people expect. It’s calculated, procedural, and devastatingly costly. Cassie doesn’t “win”, she pays the ultimate price, and that outcome is meant to feel unsettling, not empowering. That makes it distinct from most recent revenge films, like John Wick, where revenge is stylized, kinetic, and ultimately victorious. Here, revenge isn’t spectacle or power fantasy, it’s uncomfortable, messy, and expensive. The film dresses itself like a glossy “girl power” thriller only to deny the audience that satisfaction, and that refusal of easy catharsis is exactly what makes it sharp rather than naive