65 Questions We Had After Watching ‘The Drama’

The following article contains spoilers for The Drama.

The Drama, Kristoffer Borgli’s splashy, twisty wedding saga starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, is guaranteed to be divisive. Naturally, we were first in line to see it, and left with a whole lot of questions.

Please, for the love of God, go and see it spoiler-free—and then read the 65 things that we’ll be arguing over for the rest of the Easter weekend.

1. Why would smoking heroin disqualify you from being a wedding DJ?
2. Is it funny that Sydney Lemmon, who played CBK’s sister in Love Story, is the heroin-smoking wedding DJ?
3. Why are all four of these people at the dinner table psychos?
4. Why did Rachel not face more scrutiny for locking her neighbour in that closet?
5. Did anyone want to hear more about Charlie’s cyber-bullying?
6. If your partner asked you about the worst thing you ever did, would you actually tell the truth?
7. Anyone else planning on asking everyone they know what they would do in this scenario?
8. Can you call the police on someone for a crime committed decades ago?
9. Or, I guess, a crime almost committed?
10. Does Emma have friends of her own who aren’t Charlie’s friends?
11. Is that because she’s kind of a weirdo?
12. But I thought she made friends with all those kids after the, um, incident?
13. Why did Rachel’s cousin Sam saying “It’s just from Uniqlo” of her puffer make me laugh so much?
14. Why is Charlie attempting to restrain a woman in a wheelchair?
15. Did we need to see Emma’s ear bleeding quite so much?
16. Is anyone else sometimes struggling to work out what’s really happening and what’s imagined?
17. Was anyone else terrified that Emma was going to shoot up her own wedding?
18. Was anyone else incredibly grateful that Emma didn’t shoot up her wedding?
19. Did we need to see so much of Emma at 15?
20. Did we need to see Charlie posing with a 15-year-old Emma holding a gun?
21. Was that, like, kind of too far?
22. Did we need to see Charlie in a kind-of-dating-montage with a 15-year-old Emma?
23. Ah, okay, so she planned a school shooting because she liked the aesthetic?
24. I also spent too much time on Tumblr, but I didn’t do this?
25. Is this film kind of portraying Emma as an angry Black woman who yells at cars, yells at their DJ, and slaps Charlie in bed without, like, fully engaging with that idea?
26. But really, why did she slap Charlie three times?
27. The film seems pretty disinterested in actually exploring why she was an almost school shooter?
28. Is this film kind of glamorizing and trivializing gun violence?
29. Did there need to be so many shots of Zendaya holding a gun and looking hot?
30. Was anyone else worried that Charlie was going to start masturbating to that women with guns book?
31. Am I able to find this kind of funny because, in the UK, we’re a little more distanced from this topic than people in the US?
32. Kristoffer Borgli is Norwegian. Would an American director ever have made a film like this?
33. Was there anything more excruciating than that scene where her webcam stops working?
34. Is Charlie kind of young to be a head curator?
35. Did he disinvite his grandparents at the last minute or were they never coming?
36. Is anyone else finding his transatlantic accent kinda gross?
37. What exactly is Emma’s job?
38. What work was Rachel going to do for Emma’s company?
39. Did Charlie and his colleague have any prior romantic history?
40. Did Charlie really need to yank off her buttons like that? It’s a really nice blouse?
41. I kind of want all of Emma’s clothes from this film?
42. Genuinely, where can I get Emma’s Harper’s Bazaar T-shirt?
43. Content-wise, they’re very different, but it feels like this film has exactly the same visual style as Materialists?
44. Where can I buy everything from their apartment?
45. Seriously, where can I get that Ingmar Bergman poster?
46. And those chairs?
47. Out of interest, what are house prices like in Cambridge?
48. Is A24 going to make “Coffee or I’ll shoot” mugs as merch for this film?
49. Did anyone else want to see more of the wedding, prior to the reception?
50. I really thought Rachel’s speech was going to be longer and more excruciating?
51. Could Rachel’s husband have had a little more to do in the film?
52. How high did everyone else jump at that loud bang?
53. How drunk was Charlie when he gave his speech?
54. How exactly did he get that drunk?
55. Why is there so much projectile vomit in this film?
56. Did we really need to meet the new DJ?
57. Did the ending leave anyone else kind of unsatisfied?
58. So, are they just getting back together then? After all that?
59. I thought this was set in the summer? Does Zendaya need that puffer?
60. I felt like that film could have been twice the length?
61. But it also feels under-baked, like the first episode of a miniseries?
62. How on earth is this film going to land?
63. I’m kind of surprised that it got made and is now being marketed as this big, mainstream thing?
64. As a film, is it irresponsible?
65. This might be the most divisive thing I’ve seen in a very long time?