20 year old student Margo, while working at a cinema concession, encounters Robert. They strike up a text message-based friendship, although their personal interactions remain awkward and interspersed with Margo's imaginings of what might go wrong. This relationship develops to the point where they have sex, following which things don't really develop constructively.
I knew nothing about this film going in: I assumed from the title that it was going to be a horror a la Cat People. But no, it's a king of psychological thriller crossed with a feminist polemic (most of the creatives behind the camera are women, and there's nothing wrong with that).
And, to be fair, the film is about sexual power politics and, while it recognises that men can pose a physical danger to women, it also recognises that women can destroy men with mere allegations. It draws no conclusions, and that's fair enough, but it paints an unremittingly dark picture of what is essentially an ill-matched, ill-considered relationship arising from mismatched expectations and poor choices.
It's an attempt to do something worthwhile and interesting, and it partially succeeds, for which I praise it but, to be frank, it's a bit boring.
I knew nothing about this film going in: I assumed from the title that it was going to be a horror a la Cat People. But no, it's a king of psychological thriller crossed with a feminist polemic (most of the creatives behind the camera are women, and there's nothing wrong with that).
And, to be fair, the film is about sexual power politics and, while it recognises that men can pose a physical danger to women, it also recognises that women can destroy men with mere allegations. It draws no conclusions, and that's fair enough, but it paints an unremittingly dark picture of what is essentially an ill-matched, ill-considered relationship arising from mismatched expectations and poor choices.
It's an attempt to do something worthwhile and interesting, and it partially succeeds, for which I praise it but, to be frank, it's a bit boring.