Assassination Nation is a 2018 dark satire about a group of young girls who become the target of an angry mob after everyone’s computer has been hacked.
The entire cast is great with standout performances by Suki Waterhouse, Joel McHale and Hari Nef, but it’s Young’s performance of Lilly that stands out the strongest. She is a flawed person and that makes her much more believable in her actions. In most other movies her character would have been written as the good girl who does one rebellious thing and than suffers because of it. Lilly clearly knows what she is doing and doesn’t feel bad at the start. This is due to the fact that when you are young, you feel invincible, like nothing will ever hurt you. When her parents find out that she was sending racy images of herself to an older guy. I wasn’t upset that they kicked her out, but as parents they should have at least tried to calmly understand why she did that.