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So I’m scrolling through my morning feed and I find TWO different posts on the A24 sub casually spoiling a major plot point in the movie the Drama. In the TITLE of the Reddit post. wtf redditors?

This is a movie that I’m planning to see, and I don’t need to see details of the movie in the title of your Reddit post! Yes, if you say that one of the characters >!has a secret!< that is a spoiler, because now I’m going into the movie wondering what >!their secret is.!<

Here’s a spoiler, if you do spoil movies in post titles you are a >!big poopy faced jerk wagon!<

From what I’ve read, the general consensus seems to be that Emma planning and preparing a school shooting (up to making a kill list, recording a manifesto, practicing, and bringing a gun to school) should be forgiven because she didn’t actually do it and shows remorse and that Charlie shouldn’t be concerned. I can’t help but feel that this discourse would be very different if a male character had the same confession—I think it would be a lot of discussion about this being a massive red flag and that their partner probably wouldn’t and shouldn’t feel safe around them, in part because, as pointed out in the film, the vast majority of school shooters are indeed white men. Thoughts?

The Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart montage is nearly the scene of the year for me. What’s your favorite moment?

This question contains a spoiler for the ending and beginning of The Drama.

So, I finished watching the drama last night with my sister and had to ask if anyone else thought this. In the end of the film, Charlie sits in the diner staring at the door, and for a while nothing happens. Then there is a cut of sorts, and all goes mute as Emma walks in still in her dress and orange coat (the last thing he saw her wearing), in perfect condition. She walks past him and orders food, then sits down and pretends not to know him, kicking up conversation and holding an olive branch out to him. But... Throughout the movie there are many scenes that are muted and each one is some sort of imagination or thought or wishful way for a scenario to play out. Essentially, not what actually happened. So right off the bat, her walking in in silence in a perfectly tidy wedding dress would already hint to it being in his imagination. Then, the real hint to this. As they dine together on their first date, she asks him if the ending to the book she was reading is real. She could not determine whether it was true or not, the lines seemed blurred on the reality of the book. Then our film ends in a very unreal manner, and you're left wondering too. Also, he was told that she went back to her parents house, as the dad texted him. Why would she still be in her wedding dress and coat? To be honest I think it's fake, because Charlie does not deserve her, he was a deceitful, weak willed, pretentious sort of man, and I feel that Emma would be too strong minded to go back to him, (especially seeing as she seems to hate liars/lying)

Not crossposting due to potential movie spoilers, but when I heard Rachel's confession I immediately thought about this decade old reddit confession, about a redditor who caused/witnessed a (likely) developmentally disabled boy to fall off a chair in the woods as a child, abandoning him there, probably leaving him for dead.

As more details came out about Rachel's story and her presumably making up the fact that the boy was saved I kept circling back to this, especially with OP admitting it decades later to absolve any potential guilt.

I know I'm late to the party, but glad I finally watched it. It is very interesting. In fact, I would go as far as to say that this is the best film of 2025 for me. How it was snubbed at the Oscars is beyond me. I think Chalamet as Mouser was nothing short of incredible, the nuance, the emotions, the drama, everything was so natural.

There's always an inherent tension and chaos in any Safdie film and this is no different. In fact, I would rate it at the same level as Uncut Gems. The main reason I really like it and relate to it because I myself have played a bit of professional table tennis in my college. And to say the least, all the table tennis scenes were done really well. Very happy to see the sport getting some representation in films as well.

Talking about the cinematography, it is special, especially that chase sequence when he tries to run with the bag of money from the policeman. The streets and the sets recreate the 50s New York atmosphere beatifully.

What I found the most interesting was the choice of the kind of music used in the soundtrack. Most of the tracks are soft rock or blues songs from the 80s/90s, event though the film is based in 50s. In the opening sex scene, Forever Young by Alphaville is played. I would never have thought to use a song like that in a sex scene, I found it a bit off-putting and unnatural, but interesting.

Finally, the ending. I think many people have misread the ending as Marty finally achieving his ambition and then coming back to see his wife & child thinking I have conquered the world. But I feel its exactly the opposite. The man is a huge narcissist, and will go to any length to get his game of table tennis against Endo (literally leaving his injured pregnant girlfriend in the hospital). But all the people he has done wrong, all the screw ups that he did, all the people he betrayed throughout to get the money for the championship, in the end it is all in vain. He never gets to play the championship. He just somehow half-assed his way to Japan, realizing in the end he will have to settle for just an exhibition match. And that shows in the end, after he arrives back at the hospital. We don't see his cocky demeanour instead he cries like a baby. That just shows the realizationt that he arrived at. The baby and the mother are the true meaning he is looking for. Not obsessive ambition. He had to literally beg his way to Japan (don't get me started on that Rockwell scene). But I think you do get the point.

Anyways, I think I made this too long. Lemme know what you guys thought of it, would love to hear some fresh takes.

P.S.

A24 is producing some absolute bangers since the comeback. Kudos

I plan on binge watching all of Alex Garland's directed films

I already own, and have seen

- Ex Machina

- Annihilation

- Men

But I have not seen Civil War or Warfare yet. I plan on picking up Civil War tomorrow

But I'm still unsure if I should include Warfare in my binge marathon.

I know he technically co-directed it with a war vet. And I know he's gone on record as saying his director role was more of "support", then being an actual director

But do you think that is true? Or do you think he's just being humble, and letting the other dude take most of the credit?

Does Warfare feel like an Alex Garland film?

rewatched hot summer nights, and woww the soundtrack is genuinely peak.

>!Hey, at the end in the diner did Charlie say "it's nice to meet you" or "it WAS nice to meet you!<"

I can’t remember the exact phrasing, but can anybody explain to me why Charlie at the end of The Drama, I don’t know if it’s before or after Emma says that they can start again, but he says this really weird thing about a random guy walking up to a lady walking her baby in the middle of the night and the man tries to steal it and eat the baby.

What was the purpose of including that? It feels odd and mishandled, given the other jokes about PDF behavior in the movie and the director’s (Kristoffer Borgli) infamous essay.

In the alternative scenario where Emma makes it to the point of being about to carry out the shooting, gun in hand, finger on trigger and first target in sight, she breaks down into tears and realises that she can’t go through with it.

Would that display of empathy and human emotions mean more to the other characters despite her getting significantly closer to the action (imo)

Like would it discount their psychopath accusations and make her a more forgivable person as a teenage girl who got swept up but realised her heart doesn’t beat like that.

I think Rachael would have reacted the same but I think Charlie and Mike would have been able to offer her more grace in that scenario. Interested to hear what others think! Also interested to hear how that would change how you specifically feel about what she did.

The movie is about forgiving, and the mania one dissolves themselves into if they cant easily forgive and forget, initially Pattinson’s character doesn’t seem to get to terms with Zendaya’s wrongdoings, but Zendaya as someone who has been on the other end of the stick knows that people change over time, and in the final scene of the movie forgives Pattinson and is ready to move on, to which he smiles and finally accepts her realising circumstances shape an individuals actions, and nobody’s perfect