‘Drama’ Movie Review: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson wedding film is deliciously dark and intense!

Many of us know how cold feet during wedding planning are common. You suffer from anxiety and doubt whether your decision is right or not because it is indeed a major life decision. Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s Drama we get to see how a confession just a night before the wedding can change everything, so be very careful how much of your past you should disclose to your fiancé.

The plot of the film revolves around a drama that starts with a drunken game, What’s The Worst Thing You’ve Ever Done, just a night before the wedding. Drama shows how the relationship becomes crazily sour, and this truth confessed by the bride-to-be Emma Harwood (Zendaya), a literary editor, changes the whole chemistry between the couple, and both go into an overthinking mode about whether the decision taken was right or not. This confession led to a chain of emotions, and probably the couple didn’t even realize how a mindless drunken game could put so much stress that could change their entire relationship.

_Drama_ is hugely humorous, but at the same time stresses on the complexities of love and relationship and how things might change after marriage. While watching the film too, you will often find yourself questioning how much of our past life or childhood life especially the weird teenage years should one disclose to their partners.

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Director Kristoffer Borgli, a Norwegian filmmaker known for dark comedies and satire exploring modern existential dread, social media, and narcissism has been able to handle this hugely complex love story by not cutting down on the humour. In this dark rom-com featuring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson too Kristoffer Borgli is able to bring out the controversial wedding film but not cutting down on his humour which is definitely his forte.

The theme of Drama is just one which talks about how a woman’s confession on the eve of her nuptials causes tension not only amongst the couple, but with their friend circle too and one of them tries too hard to ostracise Emma Harwood (Zendaya) for a silly thing which she not even done, but planned for as a teenager. Emma is also labeled as a psychopath for something that she has not even done, but was thinking of doing as a disturbed teenager.

The film talks about mass shootings in schools, which are very common in the United States. As a teenager Emma developed a fascination for guns and shooting. She reveals that as a 14-year-old (played in flashback by Jordyn Curet) during her drunken game session at the wedding that she literally planned a mass shooting in her school but backed out when she heard another mass shooting was taking place at the local shopping mall. To some extent we realise through the film how teenage years are the toughest phase in one’s life, especially for a child who had to keep changing schools and cities because of her father’s job.

Drama is an amalgamation of two American themes: a wedding comedy and a common high-school shooting. Not just a humorous romantic success story, Drama is much more complex than what you can think it to be. It is indeed a raw and intense love story and a very intelligently made film. The editing of the film is spot-on. Borgli, who is known for making uneasy dark comedy, has given his audience an equally dark, uneasy, yet humorous love story. So, don’t give it a miss!

Rating: 3 and half out of 5

WATCH the trailer of  Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s ‘Drama’ here: