Luckiest Girl Alive (2022) Review

Ani Fanelli is a woman living in New York who needs to constantly be in control of all aspects of her life, this is due to a massive trauma for her teenage years and everything begins to unravel.

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*This review contains spoilers and sensitive subjects*

Luckiest Girl Alive manages to have a few twists and turns in the story and quite frankly I did not really see the twist coming. This review though will contain spoilers for that twist, due to the fact that I really want to talk about it in the review. So if you have not yet watched the film and don’t fully know the subject matters that are related to it please don’t read any further.

Ani is a success career wise working as a women’s magazine editor and is with Luke Harrison and they are planning on getting married, he doesn’t seem to fully know everything about her and an early scene of her binge eating some pizza when they are out for a meal makes us realise that she has a lot going on. Everything around her trauma is linked to a school shooting that she survived in her teen years. Something that we can all see to be traumatic, even though she would never give her story and people thought that was strange. She was even accused of being in on it all as well. When she finds out that Dean Barton a former classmate is

The story behind it though is so much more brutal than that and with good reason she has always kept quiet about what happened to her before that event. Something quite frankly even worse and more brutal, which seems insane to claim. As her story is about to come out, if she can manage to do it of course was that she was gang raped by Dean and his two friends Liam and Peyton when she was drunk. The latter of the two were killed in the school shooting.

The trauma of it all is very difficult to watch as we slowly see everything revealed, it is infuriating how she was made to feel as though it was her fault. She was shunned and blamed when it was not her fault at all. Given that two of them were killed in the shooting it was not then seen as appropriate to then tell of her rape. Which is quite frankly an awful way for it to be put across, it always seems to fall back on women that they are actually better off not saying anything with this type of thing.

Mila Kunis really does put in a very impressive performance which was essential for the film to work, with Chiara Aurelia taking on the younger version of the character. Allowing them both to show the character development throughout the story unfolding. It really must be difficult to even act out some of the moments given the awful subject matters happening.