THIS is one terrifying movie – what it exposes about society, toxic masculinity, privacy and being young in 2018 is enough to make all parents weep.
And to make all kids say: “I told you so. Life is grim.”
Based loosely on Arthur Miller’s 1953 play The Crucible, it is set in Salem, an average US city — and like the play, is inspired by the city’s 17th-century witch trials, updated here for the smartphone era.
Lily (Odessa Young) and her clique of girls are just your average bunch of 18-year-old high-school pupils — y’know, constantly sexting, selfie-ing, judging, eye-rolling and holding a general disdain for life outside their bubble. Teenagers.
The city is thrown into chaos when a mysterious hacker starts publishing online data of prominent figures such as the local mayor, and school principal, for all to see and judge and vilify.
But the joke goes too far when the hacker ups the game and releases the data of half the city’s population, creating carnage as families are broken, relationships destroyed and lives put at risk. Lily is thrown into the middle of this, being slut-shamed for an ill-advised relationship. And when she is in the frame for devising the whole cyber attack, things take an extreme and violent turn.
From the opening montage where director Sam Levinson flashes up trigger-warning slogans such as Fragile Male Egos and Transphobia, to the final credits played out over the Salem marching band’s version of the Miley Cyrus song We Can’t Stop, you are left slack-jawed.
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It is brutal, angry, abrasive, brash, sexy, grotesque and deeply troubling — perfectly judging the mood of young women around the world. Cinematically it is as inventive as you can get, and also incredibly adept — featuring as good a tracking shot as you will see — despite the temptation to veer into the cheap-trick style of The Purge horror films.
It also perfectly sums up the countless miserable ways teenage girls are pressured into online falsehood regarding their desires and bodies.
Addressing all our deep-seated fears over sex, privacy and celebrity, this should make parents of boys want to have a foreboding, stern word with them about their future treatment of girls — and parents of daughters want to lock them in a bunker until the world sorts its s**t.
Assassination Nation 108mins (18)
★★★★☆
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You don’t have to pack away your bikini just because you’re the wrong side of 20. These body-beautiful stars reveal their secrets to staying in shape and prove you can smoulder in a two-piece, whatever your age. Read on and be bikini inspired!
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Hayden Panettiere
Size: 8
Age: 18
Height: 5ft 1in
Weight: 8st
To achieve her kick-ass figure, Hayden – who plays cheerleader Claire Bennet in Heroes – follows the ‘quartering’ rule. She eats only a quarter of the food on her plate, then waits 20 minutes before deciding whether she needs to eat again.
Hayden says: “I don’t have a model’s body, but I’m not one of those crazy girls who thinks that they’re fat. I’m OK with what I have.”
Nicollette says: “I don’t like diets – I see it, I eat it! I believe in eating healthily with lots of protein, vegetables and carbs to give you energy.”
kim cattrall
Size: 10-12
Age: 52
Height: 5ft 8in
Weight: 9st 4lb
SATC star Kim swears by gym sessions with Russian kettle bells (traditional cast-iron weights) and the South Beach Diet to give her the body she wants. To avoid overeating, Kim has a radical diet trick – squirting lemon juice on her leftovers – so she won’t carry on picking.
Kim says: “I am no super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.”
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