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The Drama has finally been released in cinemas and after being held in suspense over what Emma could have possibly done that caused such a drama (lol), I joined all my fellow Twilight \/ Shake it Up fans in the theatre\u00a0 over the weekend.<\/p>\n

After so much speculation, I was pleasantly surprised by the plot and how it all unfolded, but was surprised to discover how there’s an alternative interpretation of the ending<\/a> of The Drama<\/a> which is actually really compelling and makes a lot of sense.<\/p>\n

People are arguing over whether Emma really met Charlie in the diner, or if he imagined it<\/h2>\n
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The ending scene finds Charlie getting fast food at the diner her joked about going to with Emma on their wedding night. Bloodied and bruised, he orders food and a Diet Coke and sits in a booth contemplating the night. He then glances up as a bride wearing an orange jacket walks past the diner windows, before entering.<\/p>\n

The bride is of course Emma, who orders food and asks if she can join Charlie in the booth. Emma proceeds to roleplay with her new husband, asking him if he lives nearby and even asks what happened to his face.<\/p>\n

This time, Charlie goes along with the roleplay and answers Emma’s questions humorously, joking that he actually saved a baby from being kidnapped, hence his beaten up face and bloodied clothes.<\/p>\n

But many people on Reddit<\/a> are unconvinced that this ending was reality.<\/p>\n

Some people believe Charlie only saw Emma in the diner in his imagination<\/h2>\n
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The film features many “imagined” scenarios, where we see something play out only in the minds of Emma or Charlie. It sort of leans into their subconscious, showing us what they wish were to happen or where their mind was wandering during their thought processes.<\/p>\n

o one Reddit<\/a> user argued<\/a> whether the ending scene was entirely in Charlie’s imagination, or whether Emma really did seek him out in the dingy diner.<\/p>\n

They wrote: “In the end of the film, Charlie sits in the diner staring at the door, and for a while nothing happens. Then there is a cut of sorts, and all goes mute as Emma walks in still in her dress and orange coat (the last thing he saw her wearing), in perfect condition.<\/p>\n

“She walks past him and orders food, then sits down and pretends not to know him, kicking up conversation and holding an olive branch out to him. But… Throughout the movie there are many scenes that are muted and each one is some sort of imagination or thought or wishful way for a scenario to play out. Essentially, not what actually happened.”<\/p>\n

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They argue that her perfectly clean wedding dress is not in line with the day’s events, hinting that this may in fact be part of his imagination.<\/p>\n

The symbolism around Emma’s book may reflect in the ending<\/h2>\n

But the user also looked back at their first date, where Emma asks Charlie if the ending of the book she was reading was real. The couple discuss the ending and whether the mirror is suggestive that the character dies or not, ultimately suggesting that the lines are blurred and it’s intentionally ambiguous.<\/p>\n

The ending of The Drama very cleverly follows the same pattern. The user wrote: “Then our film ends in a very unreal manner, and you’re left wondering too.”<\/p>\n

A final argument for the ending being a figment of Charlie’s imagination comes back to the wedding dress, where users argued that she surely would not still be wearing if she had gone back to her parents like Charlie believed after texting her dad.<\/p>\n

The user concluded: “Why would she still be in her wedding dress and coat? To be honest I think it’s fake, because Charlie does not deserve her, he was a deceitful, weak willed, pretentious sort of man, and I feel that Emma would be too strong minded to go back to him, (especially seeing as she seems to hate liars\/lying).”<\/p>\n

Despite the strong argument, other people decided it was a real ending and that the two did really meet up after all. Not only did they suggest Emma’s wedding dress was clean because she left before getting caught up in the physical altercation, but also that there’s no concrete evidence she went to her parents and may have got on a bus to the diner instead.<\/div>\n
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Despite a few hopeful romantics believing they do stick together, others have concluded that Emma’s tears and Charlie’s intonation on “It was<\/em> nice to meet you” is the turning point in their relationship, where they both know there’s no moving on from the events that have unfolded.<\/div>\n
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Featured image via YouTube<\/em><\/div>\n
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