The premise of this “anti-cancel culture” movie THE DRAMA is that a guy learns his fiance almost committed a mass shooting at 15, but then didn’t go through with it.
This completely wrecks their relationship. People around him tell him she is a psycho and he must immediately call the police.
You, the viewer, are meant to tap yourself on the back for being empathetic and forgiving towards her while everyone else acts insane about this total non issue.
If my gf told me she almost did that at 15 I would be like wow that’s fuckin crazy - but I wouldn’t break up with her or have it ruin my perception of her because I am an adult, who was also a teenager, who also had dark and erratic thoughts, like literally everyone else. It would be fascinating more than anything. Almost everyone I know would behave the same way.
This couple wears Harper’s magazine shirts and quotes Freud, and we’re supposed to believe they are incredible intelligent literary types with mature understandings of the human condition who simply cannot contextualize this fact of someone’s childhood.
There is something so condescending about the films thesis. It is meant to be a reeducation camp that teaches us to empathize with people we already empathize with. It assumes we are judgmental and wags its finger at us when we are in fact already cured of its supposed ills. Simply not a film that was made for adults.