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Coralie Fargeat's expertly crafted horror-thriller Revenge is designed to make the audience doubt its protagonist's survival potential from the jump.

Fargeat cleverly has the early stages of the film unfold with the male gaze firmly in mind - Jen (Matilda Lutz) is a beautiful young American woman which the camera practically drools over, up to when she's sexually assaulted by her boyfriend Richard's (Kevin Janssens) pal Stan (Kevin Janssens).

In the ensuing confrontation with Richard and his friends, he pushes Jen off a cliff where she's impaled by a tree branch, seemingly killing her.

Now, it would've surprised nobody if Jen succumbed to the harsh elements and her grim injuries, considering her apparent lack of practical survival experience.

But Jen frees herself and gingerly hatches a revenge plan, taking the three men out one by one, after crudely cauterising her wound with a heated beer can and chugging some peyote for good measure.

By film's end the tables have firmly been turned as Jen hunts down her only surviving aggressor, Richard, and kills him while he's still naked after a shower.

Fargeat played quite perfectly on society's unfair stereotypes of a woman who looks like Jen, that she'd be a delicate victim without the mettle to fight back - something she quite decisively proved wrong.