Still don’t know if that conversation with Mike and Charlie was Emma’s dream or not. Definitely missed it that was clarified because if felt out of character for Mike to push the cop calling and beating her up lmao
Yes I’d agree with this as well. I was like am I being gaslit by all these characters who are completely overreacting to an event that didn’t occur 15 years prior. I’m sure I’d have a think about it and then probably and hopefully move on.
My half-joking theory is that Rachel purposefully overreacts at the dinner scene to obscure the fact that she admitted to doing a legitimately fucked thing to a kid lol
It was a daydream i think, i forgot that it was said in that context. I was thinking specifically of Mischa telling Charlie that’s what she’d do.
I think that was Emma daydreaming what she thought Charlie was doing when she woke up and he was gone.
Saying you’d call the cops because 15 years ago someone planned a school shooting and then didn’t do it is very stupid and very funny.
Police stings will let you go pretty far with trying to carry out solicitation for hiring a hit man and if you don’t cross a certain line there’s not much they’ll do about it. Sure, judge someone on a human lenel in context of their age, thinking/motivation, upbringing, what you thought you knew about them, etc. — it’s an interesting thought process. Going to the cops, especially with the time that had passed, was laughably preposterous though.
I felt like the reactions were largely related to socioeconomic privilege. What Rachel actually did (and how she tried to justify it) was IMO the worst thing at that table, but what she did wasn't as socially charged as Emma's confession. The conversation between Charlie and Rachel was so interesting and telling. He challenges Rachel to think outside her bubble by referring to school shootings as an "American" thing, then it takes him explaining away Emma's past with another socially charged topic ("it's cause of her trauma!") for Rachel to actually pause. The movie does a good job highlighting how cushy everyone's lives are and how performative outrage can be. But I love that it's also ballsy enough to center the movie around an issue as real and complex as school shootings, so it doesn't feel cheap or preachy. I can't think of another issue that would have worked for what this story does.
Also love the small detail of their engagement photo changing at one point. I think on the fridge. It normally has Zendaya with all 4 fingers showing off her wedding ring, but after the admission and Pattinson’s spiraling it changes to 2 fingers. Looks like she’s pointing a gun at him lol.
I went into this blind, didn’t see the trailer or know a single thing about it. God damn this was so good. The final scene was perfect.
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It was so funny that Zendaya was like I was an ugly awkward teen and she just looked like Ayo Ederbiri with a bad haircut Also the internet is forever no way a background check wouldn't show that
The funniest part of her being an unpopular bullied teen is that it’s Zendaya who was a literal Disney star at the same exact age
I actually loved this movie, way funnier than I was expecting and the two leads were fantastic Rachel is also the most I have hated a movie character in I can't remember how long, when Pattinson rightfully called her out for how fucked up her confession was along with the fact that she actually did it, it was so cathartic lol
So far throwing up all over your future wedding venue a couple days before the wedding is the worst thing she’s done.