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00:00All right, so I just got back from the drama starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson and this
00:04is what we go to the movies for. This was a challenging movie. The whole crowd was
00:08immersed and simultaneously shocked and enthralled. This movie is going to be a total conversation
00:14star. You know, it's taking the concept of would you love me if I was a worm up to like
00:1711. The
00:18central plot here is we're following Emma and Charlie who are just recently engaged and they
00:22play a game of what's the worst thing you've ever done. So before we got married we did this thing
00:27where we said the worst thing we've ever done. Okay, I um, I'm sorry, I um, Emma what the f
00:38-
00:38And Emma lets slip the worst thing she's ever done and then it throws the couple into kind of a
00:43downward spiral the week before their wedding. Now just so you're prepared going into this,
00:48this is from the director of Dream Scenario which is like this weird surreal cancel culture sort of
00:53comedy horror hybrid and also Sick of Myself which was this body horror social satire. I think it's
00:59worth knowing that going in. Now what I really appreciate about the marketing to this movie is
01:02it almost made us invested in Emma and Charlie as a couple. The promos were all these cute photos of
01:08Zendaya and Robert Pattinson together and you almost like started like really enjoying their
01:12connection. You know the interview second there was a lot of palpable chemistry and I think a lot of
01:15people are going to go to this movie expecting a sort of fun zany rom-com and they're going to
01:20be
01:20delivered this really dark compelling mean-spirited Seinfeld episode almost. I thought this movie was
01:26just absolutely hypnotic. We're treated to surreal hypothetical dream sequences that are equal parts
01:31horrifying and hilarious. This movie is interrogating what is true love, what would you tolerate from
01:36your partner's past, are our past mistakes worth being held accountable you know 10, 15, 20 years later
01:42you know like all of this stuff is really interesting and I'm not going to give away what the secret
01:46is.
01:46I urge you not to search up what the secret is. Just trust me it's genuinely worth waiting for the
01:52reveal. It's that good and it does live up to the hype all right. I thought I knew what it
01:56was going
01:57in because I'd heard certain people were upset and even seeing the movie I was like oh fuck. But what
02:03I
02:03like about this movie most is I think it's going to be a total conversation style you know in the
02:07marketing there's been all these like card games these like dark versions of like were we ever truly
02:12strangers or whatever you know that card game where you get to know each other's couples. I think this
02:16movie might actually put certain couples to the test and like the car ride home from this movie
02:21for any couple is going to be an interesting one. I also think this movie is going to serve as
02:25a
02:25massive Rorschach test. I think there's going to be a large amount of people that do have some
02:29empathy and understanding for Zendaya's character, for Emma's character and what she did and what might
02:35have got her to that place. But at the same time I think there's going to be a lot of
02:37other people
02:38that are like fuck her like get out of here absolutely not and I think that's going to be really
02:42interesting too. I think the movie isn't holding your hand and while some things might feel like
02:47weak characterization I think the movie is intentionally keeping certain things vague
02:51so you can kind of project your own thoughts and feelings onto the situation. So I really liked the
02:56approach here. Again super surreal at times really funny like darkly funny but also and I will say
03:03surprisingly romantic and earnest at times. I actually found myself getting really invested
03:08in the will they won't they are they going to get out of this downward spiral that this movie was
03:13playing with and truthfully in a fucked up way I was kind of more invested in the central couple here
03:18the central romance here than I was anything in materialists and that's despite the dark disturbing
03:25territory that this movie is exploring and best believe like this movie is really playing with it and
03:31when I say playing with it like really having a dark sense of humor again keep in mind this is
03:35from
03:35the director of dream scenario and sick of myself and also produced by Ari Aster who both of them are
03:40kind of provocateurs at times. I would actually say if you liked Eddington you might like the drama if
03:46you're looking for rom-com maybe look elsewhere. Now there are other movies I could reference in order
03:51to give you like a reference point as to why you would like this movie but I don't want to
03:55give
03:55anything away. Any movies I recommend would just give away the secret so I really don't think it's worth
04:00doing but Zendaya delivers a fantastic performance. I actually think this is the best performance we've seen
04:05from Zendaya. You know Zendaya gets a bad rap I think mostly just because of her portrayal as MJ
04:10in the Spider-Man movies but I think outside of that she's fantastic in Euphoria, she's fantastic in
04:14Dune, she's fantastic in Challengers and this is easily her best role in my opinion. She actually
04:19brings a lot of empathy and heart and like realism like groundness to this character. Occasionally she
04:25comes off quite cringe and uncomfortable despite obviously being a beautiful young woman but I think
04:30the way she's positioned in this movie is just really well done and it walks a really fine line.
04:36I really like what they do with her character. Robert Pattinson continues to be one of our greatest
04:41living actors like he's absolutely phenomenal in this and he's playing someone who's simultaneously
04:46you have some empathy there but he's also kind of pathetic at times and like kind of like
04:50devious and mischievous and he brings a really interesting presence to this movie. I also thought
04:56Alana Haim as Rachel which is their kind of friend. She's the maid of honour at the wedding. I think
05:02she brought a really interesting texture and vibe to this movie. I think she's going to be the source
05:08of a lot of conversation and debate around this movie depending how you feel about her. You know
05:13she's the one having a really visceral reaction to Zendaya's secret in the trailer and I think
05:18that reaction is really something worth unpacking and talking about in the car ride home. So yeah
05:23if you're looking for a movie it is edgy all right like this is a pretty like full-on movie.
05:28I think
05:28there were some couples that were there for a fun date night that were absolutely mortified by what
05:33they were seeing but um this was absolutely up my alley. I do really recommend this. Even if you put
05:38off by it I still think this is actually worth your time. To quote Sean Penn. Simon Pegg. To quote
05:43Simon
05:44Pegg. From his Criterion Closet Visit all right entertainment is an overrated function of art
05:49sometimes. Entertainment is an overrated function of art sometimes being made uncomfortable is the
05:55point. As pretentious as that sounds I think sometimes we do need to be challenged as audiences
06:00and I think this movie is delivering that challenge. It was my most anticipated movie of the year and
06:05absolutely delivered so absolutely go see this. It's got my sign of approval. Now we're going to get
06:09into spoilers. Three two one spoilers. Now before we do please consider getting a membership to this
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06:36it.
06:36Have you left? I don't want to spoil it. Please leave now. All right so Zendaya when she was younger,
06:42when she was 15, plan to commit a mass and it's bad. It's a bad off-putting secret. All right
06:51like
06:51the thing falls out of the room but there's a couple different ways to slice this. So first off
06:56they go around the table. I thought every secret was low-key fucking bad. Like they were all bad.
07:02Of course it was the worst thing they've ever done. So Mike's secret was that he was with this
07:05girlfriend that he didn't particularly like and then like a dog came up and he like kind of used her
07:09as a human shield. That feels straight out of Seinfeld in my opinion. So pretty bad.
07:14Then we go to Alana Haynes one. All right so Rachel's secret. Now this one is notably pretty
07:20fucking bad. All right she locks someone who later they have a discussion around might have been
07:24mentally disabled but she locks someone in a cupboard and then left him behind and I think
07:29she's been disingenuous in line when she said oh I would have told someone eventually. Like the fact
07:33that I could deal if she locked someone in a cupboard is like some weird childish thing but the fact
07:37she didn't tell someone when she got home. She lied about it. She didn't tell anyone. She avoided telling
07:41anyone about it. That was fucking bad. All right I didn't believe her when she said oh I would have
07:44told someone eventually. It's like when were you gonna do that? Now in saying this though we can
07:48forgive her right because she was young. Then we get Charlie's which was the fact that he cyber bullied
07:53someone online. I almost think it's a nice flip side of the coin of Emma right? And Emma's secret is
07:59yeah when she was 15 she got to the point where she brought a gun to school and was ready
08:04to do it.
08:04And the initial thing that stopped her was the fact that another one happened that day at a mall
08:09and I guess the reading I had of it was simply just like oh like I don't want them to
08:14steal my
08:14thunder on this day. I guess I'll do another day. Now I will say that is the worst part of
08:20the story
08:20for me. The fact that she didn't stop because she realized it was the wrong thing to do. The fact
08:24that
08:24she stopped really because it felt like oh okay well I guess they stole my thunder. Maybe I'll do it
08:28another day. But when she decided not to do it because someone stole her thunder then she almost had this
08:33force come to Jesus moment where these people kind of misread her and thought she was actually like
08:38an anti-gun person and then like called her in to be an activist and then by doing this initially
08:43performatively or initially just to have friends she actually got on board and in my opinion
08:48somewhat redeemed herself. You know what I mean? Like and this is where I think the movie and maybe my
08:54video itself is gonna start get challenging because I actually had a bit of empathy for Emma as a character.
09:01I don't know about you guys but like yes she thought about that thing but my first response
09:06especially given the fact of what Rachel heard which was literally just the secret of when I was
09:11younger I thought about doing a mass. All right? The fact that she thought about doing that to me when
09:17I heard that I was just like oh my god like high school must have been fucking terrible for her.
09:22She must have been really dealing with a lot mentally unwell. Like is she okay? Like is she okay now?
09:27Like Jesus. And what I found interesting was the way Rachel responded to me felt like
09:32she must have never been friends with Emma at all. Now in saying that I do get that she was
09:36gonna have
09:37a loaded reaction because of course her cousin was a victim in one of those, right? So I do understand
09:42it to an extent but I don't know about you guys but I felt really quite bad for Emma throughout
09:48the
09:48movie and I think that's what this movie is wrangling with. Like are we our worst thoughts? Are we,
09:53you know, where do you kind of draw the line of well the intention is enough, you know? I mean
09:59obviously they bring up a parallel later when Charlie almost cheats or kind of did cheat essentially.
10:04Like I don't think anyone would be thrilled if their partner did what Charlie did but they're
10:08clearly drawing a parallel where it's just on the edge and then just stops, you know? So now while I
10:14understand Rachel's response being fairly heightened because of her cousin, at the same time yeah like
10:20Charlie says given what she did by putting the kid in the closet and how bad that could have gone
10:24as
10:24well, I'm actually surprised she wasn't a little more understanding of Emma and again like maybe
10:29this is just different people and maybe this is a lot more sensitive in America but for me I was
10:34just
10:34like okay okay Zendaya isn't that person now, Emma isn't that person now, she clearly hasn't done
10:39anything like that since then so clearly she was in an incredibly dark place when she was younger but
10:43truthfully I don't know about you guys but like there were like three or four kids at my school that
10:48said some absolutely insane shit when they were younger stuff that I thought about during this
10:53movie and went damn like I can't believe we all just went oh nah he'll grow out of that like
10:57that
10:57was a crazy fucking thing to say you know so now Rachel had every right to want to pull back
11:01from
11:01Emma. If Rachel was genuinely uncomfortable being around Emma given what her cousin went through and
11:07it is really a sore spot and she couldn't go through with the wedding that's fine that's actually fine but
11:12I actually expected a sort of empathetic response slightly from Rachel like maybe a thing of like
11:17hey Emma look I'm really sorry I know that's not who you are but I'm just struggling to get over
11:22it
11:22best of luck with the wedding but I'm just gonna pull back. It was this really aggressive judgmental
11:28vibe to a point where I almost felt like damn like Emma is being ostracized as if she did this
11:33thing.
11:33Now I will say the tidbit of information we are given that Rachel I don't think is given is the
11:38fact
11:38that the only thing that stopped Emma from doing it initially was the fact that like someone stole her
11:44thunder that day so I was sort of like okay that part's not great like but Rachel didn't know that
11:50part all Rachel heard was I was thinking of doing this mass and I didn't go through with it in
11:54which
11:54case I'm sort of like okay she obviously felt bad didn't do it and it's like it's not ideal it's
11:59actually fucking scary but it's like I don't know the only person I thought was having kind of like
12:03a response I understood going through through all the phases where I'm like yeah I kind of get
12:08everything you're going through was Charlie himself. Charlie is the one that has to spend his life with this
12:12person. He's obviously thinking back to every time she was even a bit aggressive you know slapping
12:17him in bed and you know slapping him in bed and swearing at a driver and all this stuff I'm
12:22like
12:22well these are valid questions he's the one that's going to spend his life with her he wants to know
12:26that you know the mother of his kids and all this stuff is actually mentally all there but like
12:31I don't know like I found it really interesting because yeah I felt kind of bad I was like oh
12:35baby who
12:35hurt you which maybe is a bad response and I'm not saying that anyone who is the victim in a
12:41mass
12:41deserves it at all but you know the little flashbacks we got to the bullying and stuff I was
12:46like okay I got it like she was in a really dark tormented place and if anything I thought this
12:50movie
12:51actually was like bringing some interesting thoughts around empathy understanding growth change and like
12:57you know when and when Charlie pushes at the idea now yes it does feel like a flimsy excuse a
13:02flimsy
13:03defense when he says it but I think there is some truth to the defense that Charlie offers when he
13:07says
13:07like look like for young kids growing up in America this is something they think of when they
13:11are getting bullied when they're going through a tough time now yes he does actually amplify and
13:16kind of like fudge and lie around to build more empathy around the fact that she lost a friend
13:20but I actually thought he kind of got onto something here where it's like yes this is probably something
13:24people think about because it's a known thing to do there is this vibe of like oh I'm getting picked
13:29on I'll show you you know even that song teenagers from my chemical romance was exploring that line you
13:35know this idea of like you know that line of if you're troubled and hurt what you've got under your
13:39shirt will make them pay for the things you did right like this idea of like I know the ultimate
13:44way to get back at the people that hurt me it's not good it's juvenile childish dangerous it's the
13:49worst thing ever but like I think Zendaya Emma knows this and her response throughout the movie of
13:55basically being like yeah that was a fucking terrible thing yeah I'm really not proud of it like
13:59the entire movie it felt like she'd actually like processed it already felt immense guilt immense
14:04shame and she almost just let it slip as almost this relief when she was drunk over this drinking
14:09game I thought it was like really human and well done and given his previous films that felt a lot
14:15more sardonic and emotionally disconnected I was pretty struck by how enthralling this line was and
14:21again I had empathy for Charlie because I was like this is actually a lot to process and a lot
14:25to deal
14:25with but yeah I'm being honest and I extend the floor to you too like if I found out that
14:31my wife or my
14:32best friend or even my brother if someone came up to me and was like look when I was younger
14:36I got
14:36this close to doing something really terrible now yes to be fair the way Emma kind of delivered it was
14:41pretty flippant it was over a drinking game but they were playing a drinking game but I'm saying like
14:45if I found this out about someone my first response would be like holy shit like are they okay like
14:49were
14:50they okay like what was their upbringing like oh my god um but yeah I don't know I I don't
14:55know
14:55about you guys I thought Rachel kind of sucked even with the fact that like her cousin went through
14:59something like that I'm like okay I don't know if the right response here is to treat Emma like
15:04she's done this thing and completely socially ostracize her ruin her wedding and come for her um
15:09I get the hurt I get not wanting to be friends with her anymore I actually get all that but
15:13did you need
15:14to be cruel no not really and if anything the way she was treated throughout this movie probably brought
15:19her back to how she was treated when she was in high school really interesting stuff now I've got
15:23some general thoughts I'm just going to go through they might be a little out of order and scatterbrained
15:27uh Robert Pattinson Charlie's final speech at the end after he's been through this total
15:32rigmarole he's almost cheated he's completely like self-destructing and he gives his speech from
15:38the heart where he's saying the things he likes about her you know he said he even says the line
15:42of like oh we have great sex etc but like I thought he was being really earnest here it almost
15:47felt like
15:47these two people had gone through the total emotional ringer and they're almost trying to block out all the
15:52external noise and just focus on one another I thought in this interesting moment where both
15:57of these characters have done some awful things I mean to be fair I didn't think Zendaya Emma did
16:02anything awful in this movie itself in terms of what we actually saw on screen obviously hers was like
16:0815 16 years ago I was actually really rooting for them when he was giving this speech weirdly enough
16:13I'm wondering if any of you were feeling the same or you guys were like fuck this guy but I
16:17don't know
16:17at this point I was it was this weird feeling of like yeah I kind of want him to stumble
16:22his way
16:23through this speech I will say I'm leaving it up to you guys there are a couple moments where this
16:27movie played with imagination you know like there was a point where she was talking to Charlie early
16:31on where he came home the night after you know that big drunk thing where she said the thing right
16:36and
16:37Charlie's seen there he's brought coffee and she imagines him giving her a massive kiss and cuddling and
16:41whatever and that clearly didn't happen did you guys think the actual chat with Mike happened I couldn't tell
16:46initially I think it did happen but initially it felt like it was framed as sort of like this
16:50nightmare scenario she was imagining Charlie saying not super sure how to land for you because later
16:55on in the movie I thought she was imagining something outside but it was actually a chat that
16:59Misha was having with I think Rachel but yeah early on in the movie wondering how that landed for you
17:05I
17:05assume it's real but initially it felt like it might have been a dream sequence just because we'd had so
17:09many and speaking of dream sequences absolutely loved the dream sequence where Robert Pattinson Charlie was
17:15imagining everyone had been shot at the wedding also the bit where her ear was leaking blood
17:20fantastic visuals reminded me it was almost like an elevated version of those dream sequences we've
17:26seen in dream scenario I actually thought funnily enough even though this movie wasn't about strictly
17:30dream sequences I thought they did it better in this movie again Zendaya was excellent she managed to
17:35walk this line where it's simultaneously like I was horrified when I heard the secret initially but at the
17:39same time I felt a lot of empathy for her I think you could see this scared fragile child in
17:45her this
17:45person that was completely remorseful and felt really bad for what they did but also you know
17:50kind of owned the fact that like yeah I was young I had a tough time in high school and
17:53it was really
17:54fucked up with me but that's not who I am now and you could see her going into her shell
17:58and going back
17:58to where she was when she was younger I thought all of that was really really well done and I
18:02thought
18:02Zendaya was really committed to this role this was a pretty demanding challenging uh kind of
18:08controversial role to take and like all the shots where she's posing essentially with guns and all
18:13this stuff like these two are fully committed to this movie in a way I really really respected and
18:18admire it was the only way to really approach this material I thought the cheating sequence with Charlie
18:23was so pathetic that you almost I mean it was objectively bad all right and that's the thing right like
18:28I'm really curious how most people are going to respond to this movie because I had two people
18:32next to me and I don't know like maybe maybe I'm the fucked up one all right maybe the normal
18:38response to have is Zendaya is a piece of shit I didn't think so I don't know about you guys
18:42but I
18:42was like wow Zendaya almost did a fucking terrible thing and she's clearly grown since then and she's
18:47clearly in a mentally terrible place and maybe there's a discussion to be had around what makes
18:52people get into this place how people get into this place I almost feel like some people are going
18:56to engage with this in a way of being intellectually dishonest like we've never had now I'm not going to
19:01say
19:01we've all had a thought that bad but we've all had some thoughts that you would not want repeated
19:05and I think there's some boldness in the way this director and writer plays with these ideas so I'm
19:11not saying uh Emma deserved what Charlie then did later in the movie right almost sleeping with Misha
19:17almost sleeping with Misha not at all very very bad but I did understand how Charlie bounced around the
19:24emotional ringer up until this point you know I mean I don't think he was doing it out of spite
19:28I don't
19:28think he was trying to kind of punish Emma or anything it was almost this weird emotional
19:35release it was almost like so pathetic that it's hard to be mad at him and again obviously it's
19:41drawing a parallel like oh he almost did a really bad thing but I mean he did kiss her he
19:45did clearly
19:45intend to for a split second it was really bad it was really really bad it was bad bad bad
19:49bad bad I
19:50almost say thankfully he stopped himself and I will say the difference between Zendaya and Robert
19:56Pattinson is Robert Pattinson at least in this scene stopped himself on his own accord it wasn't
20:00like someone else came in pushed him aside and then started banging this chick instead you know it
20:05wasn't like Emma's situation where she was going to do something and then someone else did so she's
20:08like I might do it another day and then luckily someone actually like you know showed her the light
20:13in saying that though I also throw the question out to you guys do you think there is a redemption
20:17status there I didn't think Emma was being particularly performative by joining the anti-gun club I
20:24genuinely thought what happened was initially this guy came up and showed interest in her right she
20:29stopped being this like bullied wallflower this bullied person that knew nothing but social anxiety
20:34and social suffering now she's with a group of people and yeah maybe there was a bit of fake it
20:38till
20:39she makes it right maybe initially she was there not really agreeing with the cause but slowly she
20:44did and she started making friends and started making a community and I do think she earnestly
20:48changed she threw the gun in the river like is that not showing change I've read reviews saying like
20:53oh we didn't interrogate why she wanted to do this we know why she wanted to do this and I
20:57will say I
20:58think if the movie spent way more time building like empathy and showing really awful bullying
21:03montages it would have veered in the territory of almost condoning the actual action she was thinking
21:08of doing so I actually think the line they walked was really good in building enough understanding to
21:14know why she was sort of thinking about that while also being like okay you know here's how this
21:19situation can change right she was brought into a group she was educated about guns and she went oh
21:24my god I can't fucking do this right like to me it was pretty clear all right like she made
21:28a sense
21:28of community and belonging that she didn't have before she found her little group and there we are
21:32but I think more importantly her throwing her dad's gun in the river I think does clearly show some
21:38growth like I'm surprised I don't know what people would want her to do now to repent for like this
21:43thought process and yes she did get to a pretty fucking bold point with it and the fact that the
21:48only
21:48thing that stopped her was this coincidence yeah it's bad it's bad she knows it's bad though she
21:52knows it's bad yeah I thought Rachel was carrying on a bit personally but yeah I thought the movie
21:57walked this incredibly fine line where I still was rooting for them both at the end when Charlie
22:03went to the restaurant like they said they would like you know they were talking about how like when
22:07people win Oscars they will then go to stuff like Five Guys like Michael B. Jordan did recently to get
22:13burgers right so they were going to go to a fast food restaurant and he goes there and I was
22:18I was
22:19seeing there going oh how sweet and then I was devastated because I was like knowing this guy's
22:23other films this is going to be bleak she's not going to show up and then when she showed up
22:27in
22:27that orange puffer I was terrified it was going to be a dream sequence but I was really really happy
22:31when they ended up getting together like I was genuinely swept off my feet and I thought it was really
22:36sweet in a weird way like I thought there was something in there about knowing your partner fully
22:41knowing them taking them warts and all you know putting your love to the test and I thought there
22:45was something sweet in there of like okay like she she's actively trying to reset their relationship
22:51you know he is also a bit of a dishonest guy he's a bit of a liar he's a bit
22:56weird and snaky and I think
22:57they both let all this inside noise get in and I think they both kind of match each other's frequency
23:02at the end and I surprisingly found the ending cathartic and emotionally resonant and really sweet it was
23:09surprising like I was actually close to tearing up which I wasn't expecting given the vibe of this
23:14movie up until this point I will say though it's interesting because I thought Rachel was being
23:19again Rachel had every right to pull out of the wedding and be like I'm put off by you I
23:24can't deal
23:25with that I'm so sorry fine but I thought Rachel was coming on a bit strong lacking a bit of
23:30emotional
23:31intelligence personally and understanding but what I will say is similarly to how I thought Rachel was
23:36lacking some understanding to Emma I thought Emma absolutely sucked about this DJ doing heroin you
23:43know what I'm gonna say it if you saw your wedding DJ doing heroin on the street I probably wouldn't
23:48be
23:48particularly like it might put me off too all right but in saying that she showed up to the wedding
23:53completely clean all right like no signs of drugs she's gonna do a good job on top of that why
24:00you
24:00leave it to the day of the wedding or the day before the wedding and then to like call her
24:04out
24:05on what you saw her doing when she wasn't on your time I don't know about that one man like
24:09it would
24:10have been one thing if they cancelled it behind the scenes you know they didn't wait until the day to
24:14do it but to do it in person and to specifically quote the fact that like oh you know we
24:20saw you on
24:20the street doing this and like interrogating her like yeah I was with the DJ calling her the sea
24:24bomb and being pissed at Charlie too like they could have done this way more maturely they could have
24:29cancelled it before the wedding they could have said oh I'm so sorry we don't have the budget for it
24:33or
24:33something's gone wrong or like actually my family's surprising me with a wedding band or this or that
24:37or the whatever right pay a cancellation fee and move on but I thought the way they went about this
24:41was absolutely awful and came off super judgy and at this point similar to how I was seen there going
24:47Rachel how can you judge Emma I was now seen there being like Emma how can you judge this poor
24:51DJ
24:51but I do think there is something in this movie about not letting inside noise in I think Charlie would
24:57have got to this conclusion himself I think if Charlie just like sat with himself talked it out
25:02with Emma he probably would have been like okay so that's not you now that was pretty crazy like he
25:07had every right to be disturbed for a little little thrown off for a while like I'm sure if we
25:11truly
25:11revealed the worst things any of us have thought to our partner like the actual worst things like
25:16yeah there'd be some tough chat so I think he would have got there but I think there is something
25:20in
25:20there about not listening to your fucking friends about your relationship like they exacerbated this
25:25situation way too much and I actually really started to respect Charlie towards the end as
25:30he actually started to push back like in that speech where he started being like yeah she fucked up but
25:34this is the one I love fuck you guys like I was like yeah hell yeah like and yeah Charlie
25:39needs to
25:40work on being more honest grabbing things by the balls and just being like here is who I am or
25:45I like
25:45even when he threw out the mug with like the gun on it right like he should have been like
25:49yeah I
25:50threw out the mug because it's a little triggering because of what you told me like sorry but that's
25:54what's going on I will say I loved the whole sequence where they're getting the photos done
25:57and he starts imagining that he's holding like the young version of Emma and then he's like walking
26:02around with the young version of Emma all the cutaway gags the young version of Emma everything with
26:08the young version of Emma was fantastic like insane cutaway gags I thought that was so funny
26:13and demented and again like an actual real interesting insight it was reminding me of the dirties and we
26:20need to talk about Kevin those were the movies I couldn't bring up in the spoiler free section
26:23uh but the dirties actually fleshes out these ideas of you know what makes someone go to this
26:29now obviously I'm not defending shooters or anything but um I do think there is something in there around
26:35people that are horrendously bullied getting this idea in their heads to be like well I'll show them
26:40you know and I think the dirties explores this really well this movie kind of touched on it but I
26:44think it was avoided to not look like it was kind of championing these actions or anything but
26:49yeah really interesting stuff and I do actually think I prodded a little at having a bigger
26:55discussion again that line Charlie had later in the movie where he's like well this is an idea that
27:00people probably get in their heads a fair bit you know I actually thought that was like a fairly
27:04compelling reasoning I did really like the meet cute at the start of the film where he like went
27:08on to Goodreads to search up about this book pretended to know the book got caught out instantly and
27:13then made the argument that like oh you know if I like read the book that's even worse that this
27:17movie
27:18seemed to be all about like is the hypothetical worse than the actual action is intention as bad
27:23as actually doing the thing and yeah I don't know because I'm someone that thinks if you attempt to
27:28take someone's life like you should end up in jail with the same punishment like if the only thing that
27:33stops you is like a cop getting in the way or something like that like see you later you know
27:37what I mean like you're about to do it but at the same time like I don't know like look
27:41at Emma's
27:41character right like yes okay she got interrupted that day and chose not to do it but dare I say
27:47that's a bit of a brittle spirit right like if that's the thing that stops you and then you never
27:51do it again like maybe you were never going to do it who knows right maybe it was this perfect
27:54set
27:54of circumstances where first the videotape kept failing you know the webcam keep failing and the
28:00computer shut down and then she ended up doing it on the day someone else did and then this kid
28:03came
28:03up and was like hey here's another way and then you know she threw out the gun and like oh
28:07she's like
28:07oh I've got friends now you know like maybe it's this perfect set of circumstances and I'm sure she looks
28:12back at now and goes holy fuck what was wrong with me and I think she's clearly processed it
28:16completely that's why she felt confident being like yeah I did this thing was fucking nuts
28:20everyone has to take a second but yeah interesting I also love the reveal of why she was deaf in
28:26one
28:26year fantastic you know initially I was like oh is this just a quirk they've introduced in this movie
28:31but after you learn the secret it's like a massive nice clue you know I also love the idea that
28:37she
28:37uses role play throughout the movie like similar to what they do at the start right they do a reset
28:41and she does that throughout the movie there's like role play of like hey nice to meet you it's
28:45it's this interesting thing where maybe she is a character who after what she went through in
28:49high school and what she almost did she now spends the rest of her life wishing she could go back
28:53wishing she could restart you know and she does that in the relationship I will say I also thought
28:58like a really well-written scene I will say Ari Aster and Christoph Borghli seem obsessed with erectile
29:04dysfunction scenes like sex scenes where the guy can't get up or something's going wrong right but
29:09I thought the scene with Charlie not being able to get it up was a very like human moment like
29:14a
29:15well-realized moment like I feel like if you learn something absolutely insane about your partner like
29:21that like it would it would be tough and I do appreciate that he wasn't trying to like punish
29:25her he wasn't trying to be a dick like he was earnestly trying to sleep with her and he just
29:29couldn't
29:29because he can't get off his brain and then she has a moment of like don't think about pink elephants
29:33right she's like just stop thinking about it it's like well now I'm thinking about it it was it was
29:36good
29:36and yeah I don't know I might be on completely the wrong side of this but the whole movie I
29:40was
29:40sort of rooting for him to take her as she is I think there is something in there in this
29:43movie about
29:44taking someone warts and all and knowing that they might have a past and might have like mental
29:50challenges in their past and like stuff they've been through and stuff they've done and like yes
29:54it would be a totally different discussion if she went through it but I do think you know this will
29:59lead to further discussions about what her high school experience was like what led her down that path and
30:05I don't know like I was just thinking about in my own like like if I found out like a
30:09family member
30:10almost thought about this like yeah I would probably have a lot of long discussions with them too
30:14but you know like I don't know like I thought this was interesting I also love that this like book
30:20appeared on Charlie's desk about the guns like very surreal coincidence sort of stuff unless you guys
30:26caught it I I don't remember seeing who actually sent the book but really interestingly just happened to
30:31have this book that kind of sexualized guns and it weirdly enough reminded me of that like Jackie
30:35Brown scene where they're watching gun advertisements on the tv with like hot babes you know I got the
30:40vibe I got the vibe that she was a very tormented lonely child and I liked all these additions like
30:45you know she she thought a gun in particular was like a cool way to go about it she thought
30:49it was
30:50cool again it speaks the way America has sort of like glamorized this sort of stuff and what leads
30:54to it but not in an overly preachy way it's just been like yeah this is part of almost like
30:58pop culture
30:58in a way it almost reminded me of what natural born killers was kind of interrogating yeah I don't
31:03know I think there's going to be a lot of people that are completely intellectually dishonest when
31:07engaging with this movie like I could even tell in my theater there were people like I don't know
31:12almost like performing being like oh disgusting oh I don't oh and I'm like okay like yes of course
31:19this is horrifying subject matter but at the same time I'm not going to pretend that it isn't shocking
31:24that like probably a bunch of kids have thought about this sort of stuff now I think these things
31:28are worth talking about I think what leads to someone doing this is worth talking about if
31:33this movie in a weird way kind of leads to discussions around that I think that's a net
31:36positive but more importantly I don't think many people would actually play the game as honestly
31:41as Mike Rachel Emma and Charlie did you know if people were asked like what the worst thing they
31:47ever did was they'll probably be like oh I shoplifted once or I stole from this place or like oh
31:51you
31:52know like I cheated on my high school boyfriend or girlfriend or whatever right but like
31:55there's probably something that emotionally or morally was like way way worse that people would
32:00like never admit and I almost thought there was something like refreshingly honest in Emma's
32:06character being like yeah this was like a really bad thing I did I can't believe it um and yeah
32:11she
32:11let it slip while she was drunk so she didn't deliver it perfectly but maybe not with the sensitivity
32:15needed but they were playing a drinking game about the worst thing you've ever done like
32:20you know but um yeah not to minimize it like it's a horrifying thing to learn but at the same
32:25time
32:25like this is the same person you've been friends with for Charlie this is the same person you've been
32:29proposed to and I do think there is something in there if they haven't repeated this behavior
32:34it's worth a little more discussion than a complete write-off but yeah I love this movie really
32:40interesting discussion this is the type of movie I want it leads to fascinating interesting discussions I
32:46love a movie that I'm talking about in the car ride home and this is one of those thank you
32:50so much
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