Saw this on the weekend.
Yes, I know that there are film threads, but haven’t been so taken in by a film in a long while and feel like it’s the sort of film where people are gonna have a lot to say about it, so deserves its own thread.
Spoiler tags are going to be critical with this thread.
@roastthemonaspit linked this in the film thread, some interesting and fair criticisms in there.
Does the linked article contain spoilers @ma0sm ?
Very much so, I don’t think there’s a way of talking about the film without them really…
I quite massively want to see this. It says it’s going to be released on Prime, do you have to have a Prime subscription to view it + the cost of ‘renting’ it (or whatever), or can anyone rent it?
Yeah its bloody great. I enjoyed how it took a b-movie, almost video nasty like revenge plot into a mainstream film without showing any gore or violence and it worked completely
Mentioned in the film thread, but its also great for using the Paris Hilton song in an extended sequence and for having a cast full of other things and being like ‘oh that’s them!’
You need an amazon account but not a prime subscription (assuming new releases are the same as the rest of their rental library)
Really loved it. Loved that it worked as a hugely entertaining film on the surface level and also delivered its message incredibly well without it feeling like it was crowbarred in. Great performances all round and a real emotional rollercoaster.
We watched the film at home, it finished around 21:00, and basically spent the next couple of hours unable to focus on much else, totally drawn into pulling apart different parts of the film in combination with being floored by what happened from the stag party onwards.
i’m hoping it will come on Rakuten soon. I wanna see it and we seem to get loads of free film codes for there from our banks 
Living in my brain, rent-free
A film where Clancy Brown is apparently a good guy? It’s madness I tell you!
I’ve been trying to watch this film for ages now. Hurry up and be put on Amazon already so I can rent it 
UK release date is still down as 12 Feb, not sure its going to be pushed back again or just get released digitally. It was meant to come out last April!
Mulligan was promoting it on Graham Norton on Friday so you’d guess they’d committed to the date now
Curious to see this. Sounds a little bit like Hard Candy if anyone remembers that?
Only in broad terms really, the films are very different
Just saw it.
Knew nothing about it.
Haven’t seen a film that good for years.
I feel like you’re asking for too much coherence from trauma TBH.
I don’t think Cassie wants anything except for her pain to end.
She could well find one of these encounters ends in violence and maybe that’s even happened a bit but not visible to her parents or co-workers but the point is that she’s suffering with incredibly poor mental health.
We know she’s considered suicide (from what her parents say) so she may even be hoping that one of these guys kills her.
There is the book with the stuff in red and black. We never find out what a red entry means but at the start I presumed it meant she murdered them. Clearly as we go further in it seems more likely they are men who either never tried anything or else reacted in a very different way, maybe agreeing they’d messed up.
Why hasn’t she got revenge on the people already? Because she believed the guy was in Britain. It’s clear it’s highly upsetting for her to even hear the names of these people. We don’t know when Nina died or really anything about the last 7 years. It’s clear she did have an obsession with trying to get some kind of justice but she never really followed through.
She can weaponise rape on women who don’t agree about how bad rape is, but for men, she lets them grope her and then tells them off.
I mean yes she can. She is following in a long line of characters (mainly male, mainly cops, TBF) who use questionable morality in pursuit of justice. I don’t think the film endorses that at all, it presents it. You are meant to worry about her morals to achieve justice.
By the end I think it’s pretty clear she is spinning out. I don’t know why you think her reaction to the video is laughable TBH. Not sure what you think her reaction should have been. But it seems like the spiral is completely downward from there.
Did she even booby trap the handcuffs in the hope that Alex would go so far he can’t escape from some form of justice.
Will it even work? I think that’s also an implicit question we ask as the audience. Did she get justice? Quite likely not: As you say, it seems more likely he’d get away with it unless Alfred Molina’s character is actually a hugely shit-hot lawyer who works to undermine the defence.
the UK release date was meant to be 12th Feb but it’s still only available for preorder through Amazon (£13.99!!).
where are you guys finding it?
How are people watching this?