If you just got out of theatres after watching The Drama and are still figuring out everything you saw, you are not alone. Directed and written by Kristoffer Borgli and starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, the A24 film will stick around for a while after you watch it.It appears as the most uncomfortable and stimulating movie of the year, according to many people, and they are absolutely right about that. The Drama has almost everything on the surface to appear like it is set at a wedding, right? But it is really just a film that shows us the importance of knowing anyone that we love, and whether the worst thing that a person did should represent who they really are.It was only a few days before Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Robert Pattinson) got married, and everything was perfect. However, while at a dinner with their friends, they played a drinking game where everyone had to reveal the worst thing they had ever done, and Emma made a confession that shocked everyone at the table, and sent the entire film in a completely different direction.Emma recounts how, as a teenager, she planned on shooting up her school. She went through a difficult time after moving to a new location, and the bullying she experienced contributed to a dark feeling inside herself. She did research about other shooters, developed a plan, and practised handling firearms using her dad's gun, which caused her hearing loss in one ear. It makes for a tough moment to witness as an audience, and The Drama does not attempt to let us feel comfortable.In The Drama, Emma stopped, and what changed her life after that?The Drama eventually shows why Emma never went through with her plan, and it is not a straightforward or comforting answer. On the day she had chosen to carry it out, another shooting happened elsewhere in the same town. Because Emma had recorded a manifesto and wanted recognition for what she did, she held back so she would not be overshadowed. It is an unsettling and very human detail, and Borgli does not soften it at all.But what happened after that ended up changing everything for Emma? A classmate she barely knew turned out to be among the victims of that other shooting. Watching the grief and the memorials at school forced Emma to truly see the cost of what she had nearly done. She broke down completely in that moment, and that raw realization led her toward a student activist group focused on gun control, where she finally found the sense of belonging she had never had before. She disposed of her gun, became publicly involved in the cause, and slowly became someone entirely different from the teenager she once was.Some people in The Drama, particularly Rachel, whose cousin was paralyzed in a shooting, see Emma's activism as something hollow once the truth comes out. But the flashbacks in the film suggest otherwise, pointing to a genuine transformation, even if the reason she stopped in the first place was not heroic at all.What does the ending of The Drama really mean?The last scene of The Drama has Charlie showing up at a diner that Emma had told him about earlier, and he is really bruised. He wasn't expecting to see her there, but she showed up. Instead of picking up where they left off when it all went wrong, Emma officially introduces herself as if they were meeting for the first time, much like the game she had previously asked him to play in the film, an emotional reset, a way for them to meet again without all the baggage they both carry now.At first, Charlie couldn't agree to the plan, but later he did. This gives Charlie and Emma another chance to rekindle their relationship. The ending of the story is portrayed in stillness with the two characters holding hands.It is truly a gentle ending for such a hard film. If you cut it all down to its simplest theme, it says that people shouldn't be defined by only one thing, even when that thing was their worst day. And that all people have redeemable qualities. Charlie certainly isn't a good example of how everyone is redeemable, because in addition to his lie to get close to Emma, he was a cyberbully when he was younger, and he had a fairly dangerous near-affair with a coworker during the week.Emma's past is very dark and difficult to accept. The Drama draws a line between the people as they were in the past and the people they have chosen to be. In The Drama, forgiveness does not mean to pardon the actions of the person, but rather to decide if the person standing before you today holds enough value to remain in their company or not.