Part of me likes The Drama because it’s very well made, the performances are all great.
But a big part of me is disappointed. At first I was confused. But since then, I’ve become more and more negative about the movie.
There was nobody with any empathy or compassion for Zendaya’s character. Nobody to push back on those who only reacted with vitriol, disgust, or at best shock and disappointment.
Everyone who contemplates what she did, was abused, ostracized, or at best ignored by everyone on their life. And nobody gave her any credit for getting through. The movie is too one sided. There’s no real debate. And I thinks it’s worse for it.
That was the point, though, I think. It’s a commentary on how society treats violence and mental health as individual, isolated character flaws rather than as systemic problems. Having a female & feminine character be the violent/troubled one was a brilliant choice imo because it goes against our stereotypes and further highlights this. That uncomfortable feeling you have would probably be less so if it was a character you expected to have issues like that
Maybe.
I’d like to think that.
But it seems a rather generous, to me.
It would need to spend more time on flashbacks for that. Show us more about how shitty kids were to her. Show us her parents were always too busy. Really hammer in the idea that her life was painful and lonley. Then, when we see nobody today cares to even try understand any of that, it would mean more.
But all it gives is one breif scene with a girl shoulder bumping her between classes. That little, feels like it was added as a small justification for herself. Not something that would make it understandable by most people.
Part of me likes The Drama because it’s very well made, the performances are all great.
But a big part of me is disappointed. At first I was confused. But since then, I’ve become more and more negative about the movie.
There was nobody with any empathy or compassion for Zendaya’s character. Nobody to push back on those who only reacted with vitriol, disgust, or at best shock and disappointment.
Everyone who contemplates what she did, was abused, ostracized, or at best ignored by everyone on their life. And nobody gave her any credit for getting through. The movie is too one sided. There’s no real debate. And I thinks it’s worse for it.
That was the point, though, I think. It’s a commentary on how society treats violence and mental health as individual, isolated character flaws rather than as systemic problems. Having a female & feminine character be the violent/troubled one was a brilliant choice imo because it goes against our stereotypes and further highlights this. That uncomfortable feeling you have would probably be less so if it was a character you expected to have issues like that
Maybe.
I’d like to think that.
But it seems a rather generous, to me.
It would need to spend more time on flashbacks for that. Show us more about how shitty kids were to her. Show us her parents were always too busy. Really hammer in the idea that her life was painful and lonley. Then, when we see nobody today cares to even try understand any of that, it would mean more.
But all it gives is one breif scene with a girl shoulder bumping her between classes. That little, feels like it was added as a small justification for herself. Not something that would make it understandable by most people.