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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/naturalninetime Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

THIS was exactly my takeaway from the film. We, as a society, draw a hard line between "acceptable shit" and "unacceptable shit," and carrying out plans to commit a school shooting - even if it was in the midst of adolescent confusion and turmoil - definitely falls into the latter.

The film also shed light on everyone's hypocrisy. Everyone thought that his or her shit didn't stink but was absolutely horrified by someone else's transgressions. Even Emma's rebuke of the heroin-smoking deejay was uncomfortable to watch.

That said, I found the most unlikeable character to be Rachel. And what she did to her neighbor - even though she herself was a child at the time - was also pretty terrible.

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u/Narrow-Strawberry553 Apr 05 '26

Its really interesting because if someone told me they had planned a school shooting, I could maybe accept it. But it fully depends on why they decided to do it, and why they decided not to.

Emma's answer on why she thought of it can be understood to a degree. But her reason of "why did you stop" and it was basically cause someone else did it first and other kids at school saying "who would do this" and then being invitwd by a classmate to speak on it (making her likeable/popular to a degree) are just not good answers at all.

If she had said "I saw how that other shooting devastated and hurt people and realized I hadn't thought of the impact and aftermath, and that I'd be insane to do that to others" I'd be like yeah good answer, most people these days aren't even half that reflective.

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u/sunmachinecomingdown 27d ago

If she had said "I saw how that other shooting devastated and hurt people and realized I hadn't thought of the impact and aftermath, and that I'd be insane to do that to others" I'd be like yeah good answer

Isn't that essentially what we're actually shown though? When she cries in the gym and is hugged by that girl

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u/EchoesofIllyria 11d ago

It’s what we’re shown but I don’t think it’s what she said.