Promising Young Woman [2020] Review: A Flawed Yet Impactful Take On Rape Culture

Promising Young Woman is a movie that is meant to get ugly. And that is evident right from the very first shot. The film tells the story of Cassandra (Cassie) played by Carey Mulligan, a young woman who adopts vigilantism to track and intimidate potential rapists by pretending to be drunk. A medical school dropout, …

Touch

Even today I flinch and shudder a bit when someone touches anywhere near my lower body without my knowledge or consent, accidentally or otherwise. And it's not like how kids wince at the sight of an injection needle, or how we recoil from a physical wound. It's an old scar, left inside for so long …