@hennyondatok: Handling Emma and her confession in The Drama with kids gloves is just as ineffective as Rachel’s performative outrage because at the end of the day, she still needs genuine help, not absolution.
Your connection to Neo Ned is sooo spot on. I thought about this film after watching The Drama as well.
2026-04-07 22:23:27
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brandybeephd :
All great points that I wish the film had the conviction to actually deal with, instead of saying “let’s start over”, the trope of the reset being a narrative device and Emma’s coping strategy!
2026-04-07 19:41:56
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mt_mags :
Hot take (lol) I actually think her friends in the film were more angry with her because she planned it than simply thought it (which I think is important to specify bc that thought materialized). Which allows them/gives them more credence to indict her on something other than her thoughts and allows Rachel to easily shift focus from her wrongdoings to hers. I also wonder how her father being in the military facilitated this happening bc he was really casual about a gun in his house going missing… but I doubt Borgli was thinking about conservatism amongst black ppl so I’ll admit that bit is a stretch.
2026-04-07 12:27:41
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SMITH :
points made!!!! I think her dad would’ve understood, but mama was never home 😭😭😭 ( IYKYN )
2026-04-07 01:18:39
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Angelique Nichelle 🖤🌈🎭 :
I want them to go to therapy together so bad. Couples therapy. Individual therapy. Jesus Christ, a councilor or SOMETHING is definitely needed.
2026-04-08 22:18:33
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sakuravelvet :
The clear difference is that Gabrielle Union is a darkskinned black woman and Zendaya Coleman is biracial and half-white. Even though the times of release and subject matter between NN and TD distinctly differ, Zendaya benefiting from colorism and half-white privilege, significantly helps soften the blow. Z isn’t just Hollywood’s ideal “black woman”; she’s Hollywood’s ideal biracial woman. She stands out among her biracial peers for this reason. Now the shock value of Gabrielle Union’s role kind of reminds me of the shock value of TT’s charicature of a character in OBAA. Again distinctly different stories and characters, but the similarity being the “fantasy” of a grotesque extremist portrayal of bw through a fetishistic yte supremacist lens, for the modern day. Which optics wise in a misogynoiric society and media landscape is intentionally damaging to the image of bw and is also meant to perpetuate the idea (and propaganda) that interactions between bw and yte males are inherently steeped in fetishization, violence, yte supremacy, anti-blackness, mammyism, cool girlness and self-hate. Compare that to the public response to the real life Tyler the Creator’s, the Donald Glover’s, the Kanye West’s etc., who have been consistently rewarded and even infantilized for their edgelord-ness their entire careers.
2026-05-04 16:18:40
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j_iovani :
I was very affected by Emma’s loneliness in this film and I wish the script gave more introspection into how she grappled with this as an adult. We had flashbacks galore of her childhood, so I found it frustrating that present day Emma was relegated to the sideshow attraction for Charlie and company to prod and speculate on. AND the elephant in the room that she was a Black woman planning a mass shooting was just never addressed, which was disappointing but not surprising.
2026-04-27 17:36:56
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