2022    80minDrame
4.92.5
Un drame queer incendiaire pour l'ère Me Too dans lequel Wally, poussée par la rage, l'empathie et quelque chose qu'elle ne peut pas encore nommer, patrouille secrètement dans les rues la nuit, se vengeant physiquement des hommes hipsters abusifs au nom des survivantes qui ne peuvent pas le faire. Lorsque Lou, une femme respectueuse de la loi, entre dans son monde, l'amour et la vengeance s'affrontent et menacent d'infiltrer leur relation.
Réalisé par Tara Thorne
  • Lesley SmithWally
  • Kathleen DorianLou
  • Kathryn McCormackKinnon
  • KoumbieMackenzie
  • Hilary AdamsDev
  • James MacLeanBad Men
  • Tara ThorneDirector / Scénariste
  • Nicole SteevesProducteur
  • Anna MacLeanEditor
  • James O'TooleSound Designer
  • Siobhan MartinMusic
  • Kevin Ward6 juillet 2025
    Wally, a technical writer / beat poet, is overcome hearing stories from her friends about men who have committed abuses against women, yet have suffered no consequences. Her anger and empathy turn into a compulsion exact vigilante justice on these perpetrators.  She puts the ‘beat’ in her beat poetry. However, when she begins dating a law abiding court stenographer she has to grapple with the morality of her beat downs. Is violence justified in the name of vigilantism? How about a revolution? Can she simply take victims’ words that these abuses have taken place? Compulsus offers a sort of rape revenge fantasy flick that isn’t afraid to confront what such a revolution might look like. Though I loved Promising Young Woman because of how Emerald Fennel was careful not to allow Cassie to cross certain lines in exacting her vengeance, I do think that Compulsus is a worthwhile addition to the conversation, even if it seems to land on a weird morality.

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