I watch a lot of movies that have a similar story as this, but most are horror or exploitation.
Gimme them names!
It's a big problem for young women. I don't know how it is now but in my wild days this could and would happen to anyone.
Anyone or just women? If anyone, then not just women. Hahaha. Nyah nyah! Nitpicking aside, a big problem like that deserves worthy handling. Either go 100% into the realistic harshness of it or go full-on men-murdering exploitation. Promising Young Woman didn't deliver in either of these areas, proving to be quite a half-assed attempt at the theme.
I believe there's a saying about a nice guy vs a good man. I found this on one site-
Would you mind elaborating how this corresponds to the film?
do the avenging women have to die at the end
She dies the death of a hip martyr but in the end her win is questionable and the ending short-sighted. The entire film is quite cynical, so I can easily see the epilogue, in which the rich and powerful guy gets absolved of all his sins, which would also play well into the powerful patriarchy trait.
Promising Young Woman is a pop-feminism film, so it tries to cater to the less demanding pop audience. Hollywood does not care. Hollywood just pretends. So you get these half-assed films that go halfway the track, then lie down and try to spit to hit the finish line, but the spit is never reaching its goal. Instead, it's covering the audience. Some like it. It's fine if they're into salirophilia. But most people are not and just pretend they are. When I look at the ratings of my fellow cinephiles, the film is usually hated by the right for trying and by the left for not trying hard enough, so by not catering to either of the sides too much, the film pretty much found its enemy in both. And then you have apolitical people finding it sententious.
And in general, people expecting the girl to wreak vengeance on all men, torture them, destroy them, freakin' smash their faces in, and then getting a film, in which the only violence is aimed at a woman.