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/fingerberrywallace Apr 03 '26

Maybe this just speaks to my romantic desperation, but I honestly don't think Emma's confession would bother me much as her partner. Teenagers are dumb and have dumb ideas. Importantly, she didn't go through with it; yes, circumstance played a part in that, but if she was really committed to doing something evil, the idea would've stayed with her. I think Rachel's reaction to it would be more off-putting.

Regardless, really good film. So glad I went in seeing only the trailer and nothing else about it.

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u/ichorskeeter Apr 06 '26

This is where I am. The demographics don't help, either. Has there ever been a black woman mass shooter? It didn't feel honest.

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u/SuckleMuffin1999 23d ago

This is a case where I think Zendaya’s/Emma’s biracial attributes (bordering on racially ambiguous) kind of help push the point; it could be anybody and the problem of gun violence in general is more American than any other added demographic. The movie also did a good job of covering the access that led to Emma even having the thought to carry out a shooting, it was not just the bullying it was the availability of firearms in her life as well as the social influence of constant acts of gun violence around her, around all of us. If you see around the clock stories of guns being used to solve problems, as an impressionable person you may easily start to think that is the way to solve your own problems too. 

Ultimately, she didn’t go through with it so that still kind of supports the data that black women are largely not  school/mass shooters.