{"id":375677,"date":"2026-04-12T08:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/375677\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:45:08","slug":"i-went-to-see-the-drama-with-my-friend-who-survived-a-school-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/375677\/","title":{"rendered":"I Went to See \u2018The Drama\u2019 with My Friend Who Survived a School Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to Second Thought. Thanks to River Page<\/a> for filling in last week\u2014and letting us in on his Mr. and Mrs. Noem fan fiction. There are major spoilers for The Drama below, so proceed with caution.<\/p>\n

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Imagine this: You\u2019re the young, handsome head curator at the Cambridge Art Museum, deciding between which skin-contact wine you\u2019d like to serve at your rapidly approaching wedding to a gorgeous, funny woman whom you adore. And then you find out during a lighthearted game with friends that 15 years prior, when she was 15\u2014not to mention unchaperoned, bullied, and too online\u2014she\u2019d planned to take her father\u2019s rifle and do a school shooting.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the premise of The Drama, which stars Robert Pattinson and Zendaya as the engaged couple, and which is framed as a dark psychological drama, a rom-com, and a black comedy all at once. The film is more concerned with a thought experiment than virtuosic filmmaking in any genre, and the experiment, done very well, is this: What would you do if you found out something deeply unsettling about someone that you thought you knew? And what if that something was that they were geared up to commit mass violence on innocent children? And you\u2019re geared up to marry them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome back to Second Thought. Thanks to River Page for filling in last week\u2014and letting us in on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-375677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}