The teen movie genre has a long heritage of adapting renowned literary works and putting their stories in a high school environment. Do Revenge by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson initially seems to be an addition to that canon. Its basic idea is adapted from Patricia Highsmith's suspense novel Strangers on a Train, inverting that work's depiction of the so-called perfect crime, which involves two strangers who kill on each other's behalf. However, there isn't much more to the connection between Robinson's movie and Highsmith's book or even Hitchcock's 1951 adaptation than the logline.

Do Revenge begins with Drea's (Camila Mendes) disastrous junior year. She is at the top of the social food chain at the preppie Ivy-feeder Rosehill, where she is enrolled on scholarship, when a revealing film produced for her boyfriend Max (Austin Abrams) ends up being released to the entire school. Punching her now-ex in the face in front of everyone in an attempt to get even backfires, and she is put on probation for the year that will make or break her dream of attending Yale. Eleanor (Maya Hawke), a wealthy social outsider who is about to move to Drea's school and attends the tennis camp where Drea performs her summer job, enters the picture.

When Eleanor hears about her predicament and sees an opportunity to give a trip when her car breaks down, she adds that she, too, has experienced disaster. Drea was outed at a day camp when she was 13 by a Rosehill classmate named Carissa Jones (Ava Capri), who made up the story that Eleanor had attempted to kiss her forcibly. This incident has left Drea with ongoing psychic wounds. Their animosities only grow when they return for the autumn semester, until they discover the ideal strategy for consequence-free catharsis: "team up and execute each other's revenge."

Of course, mentioning outstanding movies has the drawback of continuously encouraging comparison. Do Revenge mainly succeeds because of its dedication to creating its own thing from the sum of its parts, but seeing the ghost of Heathers makes one wish the satirical commentary was a little bit more scathing. Robinson's movie does have a message, though, and the pairing of a dialed-in Hawke and a dialed-up Mendes makes hearing it an enjoyable, captivating experience. In other words, it achieves everything it set out to do, and hopefully it will be listed with the films it so greatly admires in future teen movie lists.

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26/09/2022 11:19 AM