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Ashlea💧🦎🐜’s review published on Letterboxd:
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Revenge is a dish best served dead. I don't know what to think. Many issues with it, but it was intense.
Am I the only person who had an issue with what happened to Alison Brie's character Madison (despite how horrific her past behaviour was) and the drugging/sexual assault revenge threats? There's something deeply wrong with obtaining satisfaction out of her frantic efforts to find out what had happened to her. Sexual assault is wrong at all times. Or the fact this film focused on the friend of a sexual assault victim and her efforts to claim it as her own, sinister story? And watching her get brutally murdered was sickening.
It felt very exploitative at times, and I was close to walking out. It's pretty triggering and can be cavalier and in-your-face about the issue. I haven't completely disregarded the film because it does force people to wake up to rape culture and stop letting your buddies or prized students off the hook for causing such harm to a woman. But it's more a befuddling, helpless fury than an empowering one.