The Drama, the film by Kristoffer Borgli at the cinema from April 1st is a romantic comedy…, no perhaps it is a psychological drama with satirical inserts… an author film disguised as popular romcom thanks to the couple of protagonists Robert Pattinson and Zendaya. Harder to label so many relationships (and fortunately since they don’t serve and don’t do well to anyone), The Drama is definitely a film that must be seen strictly in original language and above all without having read any reviews that contain the mother of all spoilers. Because getting ready would completely transform the vision, so the advice is to avoid so many foreign reviews in which (though correctly indicated) that spoiler is inserted.
He won’t be here. I will try to leave you my impression on the film and my reaction to that specific detail without revealing it. Because basically The Drama is a non-linear romancecom, it is not by chance produced by A24 who made the strange narrative his trademark. Pattinson and Zendaya are a couple in love a few days from the wedding. Two that we could quietly define radical chic bourgeois from big city, young arranged and with a solid career, he curator of a museum, she in some marketing agency. But just when with that annoying attitude a little rich, a little from GenZ, to which everything is due, they are planning the last details of the wedding, together with another couple of friends make a game in which they go to tell the worst thing they have done.
But what Emma reveals changes the balance and shakes the stability achieved. Above all, friends grow the perplexities of Charlie, which ends up being overwhelmed by these events that amplify his frenzy and neurosis. Characteristics that shape the whole film, neurotic and fragmented in the construction, between sudden accelerations, fantasies, memories and mixes between past and present as only an author film can do. Emma’s revelation is a bomb in the insecurities and fragility of Charlie, the classic element of tilt, sometimes pretentious, which causes a castle of safety built hard.
Here comes the viewer’s game with this movie. The way Emma’s words are judged is the very vision of the film. Because the risk is precisely to find everything too excessive and pretentious, but right here is the game of the film. Who is the protagonist and who the antagonist? The Drama drags the audience into his nerves where emotional instability passes from character to character without finding any solution. Robert Pattinson gives life to a character with an intellectual, high-located and daring charm that at times reminds Hugh Grant of the 1990s’ romantic comedies without maintaining its stability. Because The Drama is an anti romcom, it takes the incipit and then goes on an impregnated drama of an acid sarcasm, in which the inability to communicate and understand the other, appears the perfect mirror of the individualist society in which we live.
A reflection should be made on promotion activities because The Drama everything is except that a pop film, popular and simple, contrary to its two glamorous and popular protagonists exploited to the marrow between TV programs and sparkling premieres, with passages to Amici and a meeting with the mayor of Rome. Funny to play with the wedding but the risk that then end up seeing people not ready to what they are facing is high. Let’s smile on the useless Italian subtitle A secret is forever… on Instagram there are videos of a guy who jokes about titles and adaptations, seems out of there.
Contrary to our other reviews of movies and TV series, in this case I can’t issue a clear judgment, to give the classic vote, because technically, for stage, for realization it is a 9 movie but for history and its development is from 4, to find a balance point is not simple.
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