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Remember the patriarchy

In the feminist revenge plot of 'Blink Twice,' memory is the most powerful weapon women wield against a culture of forgetting

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Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut Blink Twice begins as a commentary on men drunk on power and women drunk on forgetting. Two young women, friends Frida and Jess, are lured to a rich white man’s private island, along with a couple of other women Frida and Jess don’t know, plus a bunch of dudes.

Slater King, the owner of said island, is just as douchey as h…

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