I knew I was going to dislike Blink Twice, Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut, as soon as the film opened with a “trigger warning,” cautioning audiences of the forthcoming depictions of violence.

A filmmaker who treats the audience like children is unlikely to have anything interesting or insightful to say. The film only spirals downward from there. Naomi Ackie plays Frida, a waitress at a catering company, living in a disheveled dump of an apartment without any career or life aspirations to speak of.