Perhaps no current filmmaker has explored the sensitivity of modern society as the Norwegian director, Kristoffer Borgli. His previous movies, Dream Scenario and Sick of Myself, were biting satires that made us cringe and laugh. In his latest, The Drama, a young couple, Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya) meet and fall in love.
Shortly before their wedding, they are joined by friends (Alana Haim and Mamoudou Athie) over numerous glasses of wine. Things are said, confessions made, until Emma admits to having had - once upon a time - bad thoughts (very bad thoughts) at one point in high school. Her friend is disgusted, and angry. Soon, Charlie is also torn, unsure of himself. Should he go through with the marriage, after knowing what he knows about his future Mrs?
The Drama tackles modern wokeness, examining humanity's tolerance about people's past sins. Emma never carried out the bad thoughts she possessed as a confused teenager, she merely had them. No one was hurt as a result: not a single person. Yet she's doomed to pay for them, even now. Should she have ever said anything to begin with? Whatever happened to 'silence is golden' rule? This movie is insightful, bold, funny, but above all else - honest. I strongly suggest you see it - and everything else Borgli has created.
☆☆☆1/2
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