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[NateDog]

Watched The Drama last night and thought it was great. I really respect the restraint shown in the marketing for once, as they locked themselves out of showing so much stuff and made it a much better experience by doing so. The reveal for what the trailers setup happens early on in the film, but not knowing really did enhance the viewing. Recommend it.

Going to see it this week and have avoided the spoiler so far thankfully, enjoyed the first deep trailer having not been convinced by the initial teaser. Although I am toying with catching Amelie instead since it's a classic that I've never seen and it's in theatres now.

I love Amelie but I suggest going to see The Drama if you can only see one. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since seeing it, and the film will still work if you avoid the full context of the premise but it definitely is a plus going in blind. Amelie gets payola at indie cinemas relatively frequently so I reckon you'll be able to catch it at some point if you miss it during this big rerelease, but I guess The Drama will play for a few more weeks so you could just see it in a fortnight or something and see both but with modern cinema you never fucking know. If you can do it that way then do see both though, I'm gonna try see Amelie again myself.

I'm afraid you're too late, I already went... to see The Drama! I thought it was excellent. Thought Pattinson was great and Zendaya too. I've only really ever gelled with a performance of Zendaya once before (Challengers) and have seen her on a lot of occasions where I struggled to see the love for her, but this was another where I thought she was great. Maybe she's just typecast as the tsundere type a little too often. Some unbelievably uncomfortable scenes, great soundtrack, editing and cinematography was superb. Really glad I saw it as I figured the point that the movie balances on would have been spoiled on me otherwise eventually (although funnily enough I did actually guess what it would be about despite seeing many saying it was impossible to guess, then again the controversy over it gives you some sort of angle to work with).

But I thought it was great. On paper feels like one that you might struggle to have the desire to rewatch but I'll be picking this up when it's out for sure.