The Drama: The performative and the real.

Now walking into the Theatre, I had absolutely no Idea as to what I was to expect, because all I had seen was some clips of the Trailers where it looked like it was going to be some dark shit that was performatively shown to be a perfect Marriage, something like the Boys.

Maybe these two are celebrities or something and someone benefits from this, but who knows.

One thing I definitely did not expect was for this to be a real marriage.

I mean even in the beginning where Charlie tries to have a conversation with Zendaya's character Emma, the way everyone was looking at him, it felt like there was a script on him.

But the fact of the matter is... there was.

It's just invisible, The Drama follows these two in the last days before their marriage as one single reveal about Emma changes it all for them.

As their relationship threatens to fall apart they are forced to perform and stick to a script of what is acceptable so that society doesn't turn them into pariahs.

The fact that the movie literally begins with Charlie righting the script for his wedding speech isn't lost on me.

The problems begin when Charlie's friend, his wife, and Emma play a game about revealing the worst thing they have ever done to each other.

Charlie's Friend Mike used one of his exes as a Human shield against a Dog, his wife Rachel locked a child in a closet in an abandoned R.V. leaving him there without care or food for days, Mike Cyberbullied someone.

But then it comes to Emma and she is incredibly drunk and reveals that she planned and almost executed a School Shooting.

And immediately everyone starts treating her differently.

Rachel her maid of honor straight up cancels on her, because she has a cousin who became disabled in a school shooting.

Charlie starts looking at her differently and throw away his favorite coffee mug that says "Coffee or I Shoot".

And as this drama continues, they also happen to see their DJ smoking Heroin on the Street Side.

And while they are confronting her about it, Charlie is completely withdrawn as it is revealed that he kissed and went almost further with his coworker Misha whom he was trying to gain advice about his situation from without telling her his situation.

The Marriage starts going sideways as as Misha blabbers about Emma potentially doing a school shooting cause she obviously put two and two together, and when Emma wants to know if Rachel is the one blabbering, Misha jumps the gun and reveals what happened.

A drunk Charlie ruins his wedding speech and brings it all out and Misha's boyfriend Clocks him.

The end where he goes to a diner all bloodied and Emma tries to make them "start over" which is a thing where they pretend they are meeting for the first time and introduce each other making up stories to hide the truth of their bad qualities.

Like the first time Charlie made up having read a book.

Taking the performativness that ruined them an using it to their advantage.

The point that this movie is trying to make is, we marry or get into a relationship based on what we like about a particular person, but in a long term relationship, those aren't the things that matter, what matters ultimately are the darkest parts, the parts that we hide.

Strangest thing is, Emma almost does a school shooting because of the performative nature of life.

She liked the "aesthetics" and what snapped her out of it was someone else committing something similar and that made it real.

And after all isn't that the nature of violence?

It becomes easy to kill someone when you are disconnected from reality, when you forget what the person in front of you represents, a whole ass human being.

To add to that we perform mostly to hide those parts of ourselves, the darker parts, there is a whole section where everyone asks everyone else how can someone do such a thing, Emma plays along, even becomes a protestor herself, when in reality, she knows exactly how this can happen.

They even address the whole only men are shooters thing, but it never goes anywhere, which makes me wonder why they put it there, and even when they are making a point about how many people probably wanted to do a school shooting but didn't, they focus on a woman...

It reeks of a cut plot thread is what I am saying.

But on the whole, The Drama is the perfect Thriller based around a couple and even has a bit happy ending all things considered.