“The Drama: And what the drama was all about?”

It takes quite a while for the drama to arrive in The Drama (2026). You watch it as if it were a quarter of a film. The only thing you can sense are its dramatic protagonists: Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya). Who, even though they don’t study drama, critics seem to insist on highlighting their bourgeois characters.

This couple meets in an episode worthy of the drama from a few months ago. About so-called Performance Men (a category into which Pattinson’s character fits perfectly). At the beginning of The Drama (2026), they go through the typical dramas of wedding preparations.

Thus, at a dinner with their friends, the maid of honor, played by Alana Haim, looking for drama in The Drama, proposes a little game. Also that will have dramatic consequences: confessing. Under the influence of alcohol, what the worst thing they’ve ever done is.

So then Emma says it, and the secret she reveals shatters the image her partner and friends have of her. To preserve some of the drama, I won’t reveal what that secret is. This way, we’ll realize that it could very well be any excuse. Since the chicken in the chicken and rice isn’t the secret itself, but rather its consequences.

However, referring to the secret, I must mention that by addressing such an idiosyncratic phenomenon in the US. Despite the film’s attempt to subvert the trope in a more or less convincing way. It reaches a point where they forget its specificity and simply discard the topic.

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It reminded me of another film by the director, Kristoffer Borgli. Which also started promisingly but derailed at the end: Dream Scenario (2023). Starring a king of drama: Nicolas Cage. But be warned, The Drama (2026) is a more accomplished work in my opinion.

By the way, the author notes for those who saw the film and know Emma’s secret that she could even accuse Charlie of being a lady. I don’t understand what the drama would be if it’s Zendaya who loves me. Didn’t they say: cowardly love never becomes love?

Anyway, getting back to The Drama (2026), the film is built around a form of comedy (or torture) based on subjecting the audience and characters. To uncomfortable and embarrassing situations; it achieves this without boring us.

I feel that when the climax arrives at the wedding, it chickens out. Squandering several Chekhov’s guns (Chekhov’s National Rifle Association is what they had) that the story decides to skip over or present in a fragmented way.

To conclude, I’d say that The Drama (2026) is one of those decent films that only warrants a first viewing. Since a second viewing won’t reveal any major insights beyond its basic plot points. And it’s not a story that aspires to be profound but rather to entertain.

by: Rolando Casals, a journalism student

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