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The Cheap Tricks of Me Too Thrillers
Films like Blink Twice and Promising Young Woman are part of a new subgenre of pandering suspense films that refuse to engage with what follows abuse.
This is the plot of Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, Blink Twice, which follows a struggling caterer, Frida (Naomi Ackie), who absconds with a toxic tech billionaire named Slater King (Channing Tatum) to his private island, where he repeatedly assaults her; in time, she gets her revenge. Unfortunately, there is rarely anything approaching comedy in Me Too social thrillers, nothing like The Stepford Wives scene when the robots join a consciousness-raising circle but can only discuss cleaning products,or that Get Out shot of Rose (Allison Williams) malevolently sipping milk as she hunts for her next victim. Like Me Too thrillers, Poor Things indulges in escapism; but instead of having its heroine physically attack men in justice- and adrenaline-fueled rages, it offers a more emotional hypothetical: What might happen if disempowered girls and women could face down their groomers and abusers with the advantage of rapidly evolving brains and a grown-up body that knows its own desires?
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