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The review of Do Revenge, the revenge-themed Netflix movie with Maya Hawke, available on the streaming platform from 16 September 2022.
The mischievous eyes of Camila Mendes. The naive Maya Hawke look. And complicity (which conquers) of the two cunning and ruthless manipulators of Do Revenge, the teen comedy directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (co-writer of Thor: Love and Thunder), compared to a noir by Alfred Hitchcock, because the two protagonists avenge in one, crosses the wrongs suffered by the other, a bit like what happens in The Other Man - Crime by crime.
Riverdale's Veronica Lodge and Stranger Things' Robin Buckley team up to "take" revenge in this highly anticipated production that also stars Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones) and Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). The poison is served - literally and otherwise - with an overflowing dose of adolescent cruelty: a cold dish in which elaborate plans of revenge intersect.
Crazy parties, drugs, Instagram witches, noble it girls, or just plain cool girls, who have made their way themselves, show off great looks. With this super fashion background, and showing some negligible flaws, Do Revenge brings to the small screen a teenage story set in an elite American high school, available on Netflix from September 16, 2022.
Do Revenge: how to dis (integrate) those who have hurt us
Revenge is a dish that should be served cold, surprisingly. And Jennifer Kaytin Robinson does everything to slow down the pace of the narrative, starting from a scene always shot in a static way, allowing us to savor a dish that hides the poisons of a hypocritical world dominated by the privileged; in which those who were not born rich "do not have the luxury of being able to follow the impulses", and certainly cannot serve their pains in the pool, with an umbrella, a sun bed, and a… spritz. He can never let his guard down.
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He has to throw out a disproportionate force to be fulfilled. "His only way of getting ahead is to be smarter." For 17 years Drea Torres (Camila Mendes) has been playing cunning, trying to meticulously create her perfect life of her; in this respect, you remember the Sorokin of Inventing Anna. She goes to Rosehill, a school with rich and privileged students that opens the door to a good college. She quickly goes from being "Miss Next Gen" to a fallen high school queen. Drea sees her popularity plummet when her ex-boyfriend Max (Austin Abrams) - Rosehill's most popular guy and senior high school graduate - shares a video of her sexy sex of her.
She then meets Eleanor (Maya Hawke) who has just moved in. Both are victims of backbiting. Now Drea is considered a bad guy, a label also given to Eleanor, portrayed as a serial predator who harasses girls by forcing them to kiss her. When they decide to team up to carry out their respective personal vendettas, they make up Rosehill's most disturbing duo. Drea wants revenge on Max (labeled by the girl as a misogynistic hypocrite, fake feminist, and narcissist). Eleanor instead says she wants to make up for Carissa (Ava Capri). But the name of the two new friends is not just "revenge."
A diabolical duo starring in a surprising and caustic black female comedy
Dropping into the roles of alpha and sociopathic personalities or just two crazy/wounded teenagers, Drea and Eleanor are the young "promising women" of this surprising black comedy that touches on different themes: reputational offenses (especially via the Internet), personal affirmation, narcissism and manipulation, homosexuality, misogyny, and male chauvinism, castes and privileges, daily plays and “armor”.
Important points, a caustic script (written together with Celeste Ballard), an engaging cast (the skill and talent of Camila Mendes remain undeniable, having a good time on the set and entertaining the audience as well); with an out-of-the-line headmaster and a 90s aesthetic, Do Revenge is a remarkable "American mix". The illusionists of this story, who do not spare us the blows of the tail, decide to join forces to make those who have "mortally wounded" pay it.
If on the one hand, Do Revenge should be started with suspicion because it is not very reassuring to know that you are preparing to eat a dish cooked by two witches; on the other hand it is also a film - in some ways heartening - made up of reconciliations. The facts that happen to the two high school students show how useless it is to take revenge because it would not nullify a moral offense but could make them feel even worse. And at seventeen "it hurts to simply exist sometimes," as Drea confesses. But you have to go on thinking about your own personal challenge.