US EditionThe Drama Review: Robert Pattinson and Zendaya Prop up Provocative Marriage Film
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play an engaged couple as a hidden confession threatens their wedding and fuels a debate over empathy and forgiveness.
- Starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya as a couple preparing for a Boston wedding, the film The Drama centers on a dark revelation about the bride's past that derails their impending nuptials.
- Roughly 20 minutes into the film, Emma reveals that as a bullied 15-year-old, she planned a school shooting, practiced with a rifle, and recorded a manifesto before abandoning the plot.
- Mia Tretta, a survivor of the 2019 Saugus High School shooting, criticized the film for treating school shootings as a "plot point" rather than a lived reality she experienced at age 15.
- Activist groups including For Our Lives labeled the film's marketing "deeply misaligned" with reality, while Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter was killed in the 2018 Parkland shooting, cautioned against "humanizing" perpetrators.
- Despite the criticism, the film grossed $28 million during its opening weekend, though director Kristoffer Borgli faced separate scrutiny after a 2012 essay about a relationship with a 16-year-old surfaced online.
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Zendaya's 'The Drama' has too much drama, not enough substance
Few movies could more perfectly embody our confused, disordered, and finally inconclusive times than The Drama. Pitched to audiences, in trailers and other publicity, as a darkly comic nightmare vision of matrimony — say, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for Generation Z — the movie is actually far more sinister than that. Zendaya stars as bride-to-be Emma, a seemingly perfect ingenue who, among drinks and feckless game-playing, confesses to her …
Invited for someone who cut the cast of the Argentinian “Relats of Forests” (2014), the American “The Drama” is a romantic comedy of black humor with the Zendaya and Robert Pattinson cherries as protagonists. Their characters embrace a love after a song with no taste in a coffee and, a few years later, they see themselves in preparation for the wedding party. Unique material for signatories. To have complete access, access the material link and …
The Drama, do more than one... but which one?Within a few days of their marriage, nothing disturbs the perfect understanding between Emma and Charlie (Zendaya and Robert Pattinson).
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