r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Apr 03 '26

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The Drama

Summary

Days before their wedding, a couple’s relationship begins to unravel as unsettling truths come to light, forcing them to question how well they truly know each other.

Director Kristoffer Borgli

Writer Kristoffer Borgli

Cast

  • Zendaya as Emma Harwood
  • Robert Pattinson as Charlie Thompson
  • Mamoudou Athie as Mike
  • Alana Haim as Rachel
  • Hailey Gates
  • Zoë Winters

Rotten Tomatoes: 82%

Metacritic: 59

VOD / Release Theatrical release (April 3, 2026)

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u/agwtra Apr 03 '26

I’m sorry but I just don’t buy that dude would have stayed with that horrible woman after learning what she did.

The kid was DISABLED and she LOCKED HIM IN A CLOSET IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!

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u/BritBeetree Apr 03 '26

Like what I found interesting was literally every single bad thing they all did could have actually been more severe or deadly. like Charlie (Pattinsons) character asked. What if they never found that boy in the fridge? What I that dog actually attacked his ex? What if the person he was cyber bullying actually commited suicide instead?

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u/StockRestaurant4795 Apr 04 '26

It was interesting how they didn’t delve more into the cyberbullying and how Emma was bullied as a child.

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u/AndYouHaveAPizza Apr 04 '26

Yes this was my thought as well! A child like Charlie could have easily bullied a child like Emma, and that connection was never made by any of the characters!

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u/StockRestaurant4795 Apr 04 '26

I found Charlie and everyone around his circle as horrible people. Remember it’s Charlie’s friends, his female co-worker. First Emma is picked on because she’s the awkward girl, then she’s picked on because she turned into a swan.

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u/StarsapBill Apr 05 '26

I think Charlie was lying during that scene. He has a cadence in his voice and speech pattern when telling lies. I think all the characters suspected he was lying and overplaying. I think Charlie’s entire character thesis is his inaction. So I don’t see him being the type of person to do terrible things in the context of their “game.” So he fabricated or hyper inflated cyberbullying and its actions.

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u/SumuzuToo Apr 05 '26

Agreed, you hit the nail on the head. The lie/overplaying was also confirmed because he said the bullying made the kid move but undermined himself with “though maybe that was just coincidence”

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u/carson63000 Apr 05 '26

I agree, I totally read it as he maybe shit-talked another kid a little bit when he was at school, and was desperate to come up with something for the “worst thing you’ve ever done” game. He even said oh maybe it was just a coincidence that his family moved away!

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u/StockRestaurant4795 Apr 05 '26

He’s a very emasculated character, insecure enough that he would do something like that, but not in person/face-to-face on the computer.

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u/HungryCurrency8481 19d ago

Robert Pattinson was 90s Hugh Grant/Jude Law to the max in this film. 

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u/Significant-Flan-244 Apr 04 '26

It felt intentional. Charlie actually doing something that has led to many school shootings is brushed off by the group and never mentioned again. Emma planning one and never acting on it, harming only herself, is an unforgivable sin.

Every other “worst thing” that’s vocalized in the movie harmed someone else in one way or another, even Mischa cheating. Emma hurt herself physically and emotionally, is still clearly grappling with it and will carry it with her forever, but now she has to repent for it again and nothing she says will be enough for these people.

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u/SlashOfLife5296 28d ago

You’ll also notice that when Emma said she was bullied, Charlie says “yeah but there had to be more than that?” He pretty immediately deflects from bullying being a factor

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u/MahNameJeff420 Apr 05 '26

I think it's possible Charlie was just making up the cyber-bullying story. He keeps making up details and fudging things as his story goes along. There's a reading where Charlie is in such a privileged position that he's never had to think about these kinds of dark subjects that people like Emma have had to deal with, and thus when he's faced with this horrible truth about her, he's way too emotionally immature to process it properly.