During the film’s climax, Carey Mulligan’s Cassie, pretending to be a stripper dressed as a nurse, crashes the bachelor party of her late friend Nina’s rapist and manages to trap him in a room handcuffed to the bed. She attempts to make him merely acknowledge what he did to her friend, but he proceeds to whimper and plead with her but still maintains he’s blameless. Cassie threatens to carve Nina’s name on his chest so he can never escape culpability again, but, in a twist on typical revenge films, he ends up breaking his hand out, choking her with a pillow to death and, later, disposing of her body with the help of his friend. Then, in another twist, it turns out that she had a backup plan for if things turn sour and got the evidence to the police, who arrive to arrest the rapist at his wedding during a glorious needle drop that utilizes Juice Newton’s “Angel of the Morning”. The end. Now, there are a lot of ways to interpret that. For instance, one might think that Cassie’s death, though tragic, was not all in vain since she manages to achieve her final goal of avenging her friend. On the other hand, some might view the rapist’s arrest as a sugar-coated ending that glosses over the fact that Cassie is not granted any comfort or solace. Consequently, getting the idea that a victim’s death was the only way she could escape her trauma or achieve justice can be a very bleak, upsetting and even triggering thought. These two interpretations are by no means the only ones and I cannot proclaim any of them the definitive one. I again encourage you to go read as much of them as possible.