‘Promising Young Woman’: a prescient film about how elite universities shield rapists

You may have come across various reels in your Instagram feed over the past few weeks featuring the film Promising Young Woman, a feature in which Carey Mulligan plays a woman who takes revenge on the allies of rape culture, fully aware that her vendetta will cut short her promising future. The reason Emerald Fennell’s movie has returned to the zeitgeist six years after its release is that it bears striking similarities to the Cornell case, in which a former student at that prestigious university reported she had been gang-raped and assaulted by seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity.

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