'Promising Young Woman' ending explained: The bittersweet finale that startled everybody

Promising Young Woman is a dark comedy that follows story of a 30-year-old Cassie Thomas, a woman who once started off as an ambitious med-school student and is w a revenge-seeking part-time waitress. Her schedule includes serving at her friend's restaurant in day and pretending to be prey for sexual predators who come off as nice guys and seek revenge on m. Why is she doing what she's doing is a mystery to be unraveled in film.

On December 25, 2020, Promising Young Woman released atrically in US. On January 15, 2021, movie was available for streaming, renting and purchasing on video on demand.

We'll be discussing movie's shocking ending and why it turned that way. Major Promising Young Woman spoilers are going to be revealed ahe.

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Promising Young Woman Ending Explained

By end of trailer, we could make out that her thirst for revenge has to do with her best friend's rape. She can't move on, amount of revenge can pacify her anger and disturbed mind.

In movie's second act, Cassie is introduced to Ryan, her former batchmate who has w become a doctor. After some charming courtship from his end, she finally agrees to date him, only to find out later that he was also a friend of Al Monroe ( guy who raped her best friend, Nina) and has, in fact, witnessed rape. After threatening him into locating Alexander, off she goes to woods for her climactic revenge.

Alexander is seen celebrating his bachelor party with his or friends in a remote cabin in woods. Cassie dresses like a stripper in a nurse uniform to enter party. She drugs all or men and handcuffs Al in bedroom. She n forces him to confess about rape. However, what we witness in climax is thing like what one would have imagined. Alexander mans to turn tables on Cassie at last minute and kills her using a pillow in a two-minute painfully silent sequence. next morning, Al and his friend Joe burn her body.

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ending came as a shock for everyone. Are we supposed to believe that good doesn't win over evil after all? audience h grown to like her personality for avenging angel that she was. n why did makers think of ending movie on this te?

Fortunately, movie doesn't end re. After all, somebody as meticulous as Cassie won't barge into a party without a solid plan, right? As a contingency plan, Cassie h alrey sent evidence of Nina's sexual assault to Al's former lawyer. Later, cops are seen investigating Cassie's disappearance.

heroine finally gets last laugh with police walks into Al's wedding reception and arresting him. But, what was really best part of climax was pre-scheduled text messs from Cassie that directly taunted Al's situation. "Enjoy wedding. Love, Cassie and Nina" re texts.

bitter-sweet ending that makers put viewers through was truly unexpected. Plenty of discussions were put forth by fans and critics, some happy that justice was served, at least in this case, and ors devastated that misogyny still triumphed. Eir way, makers of movie revealed that y couldn't have imagined Promising Young Woman ending any or way.

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