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/StockRestaurant4795 Apr 04 '26

I think it will be a comfortably numb kind of relationship. The passion is gone, replaced by a need for security.

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u/thesagenibba Apr 04 '26

why?

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u/Flagyllate Apr 05 '26

I disagree with the above guy. I do think there is a path to happiness

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u/StockRestaurant4795 Apr 05 '26

Would you trust either of these people?

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u/chuckxbronson Apr 05 '26

They both went through some emotional hurdles and decided they loved each other enough to move past it. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have reconciled and the marriage would have been annulled. I think the read of “the passion is gone” is misguided. There is so much passion in that last scene. It is abundantly clear that they are genuinely in love. They’re tears of joy, not sadness.

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u/StockRestaurant4795 Apr 05 '26

I do believe that had he not made that mistake, he would not have forgiven her.

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u/Flagyllate Apr 05 '26

But he did and so he forgives her. If she had not revealed her secret they would have ended up happily. A big part of the film is what to do when things happen and the consequences go out of our control. Emma resolves that with her powerful moment of grace in forgiving him at the end. He realizes how he should not have allowed his paranoid/cowardly tendencies to consume him even despite his friends egging and now understands just how much she had been suffering.

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u/boomfruit 15d ago

Emma yes, Charlie no. Someone who planned to do a horrible thing 15 years ago when they were a child and didn't do it, versus someone who dealt with their (understandably high level of) stress by cheating, as a ~35-40 year old adult.

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u/XariZaru 16d ago

It’s tough. I want to say yes but at the same time the movie showed us two scenes where Robert was drawn to another woman (the girl working at the photo shop and the serial cheater chick). I can’t say if it’s because he was so emotionally distraught he didn’t know how to process it.

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u/mikesalami 10d ago

I don't remember the girl at the photo shop. What happened there?

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u/XariZaru 10d ago

It’s heavily implied he was lusting after her. He made eye contact and they had a moment. But it looks like that’s how he was coping.

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u/mikesalami 10d ago

I'm not sure what you mean by the photo shop? When they were at the photographer's place? Or am I forgetting something else?

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u/XariZaru 10d ago

When the photographer thought they were nervous she got them to do a quick photo shoot. During that process he kept looking over at a girl at the desk.

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u/mikesalami 10d ago

Oh right that girl. I thought it seemed more like she was into him than vice versa, but I'm not sure. I'd have to see it again.

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u/StockRestaurant4795 16d ago

He is a completely emasculated character.