I can't say I relate to everything in this film. There's many experiences in Dramarama that fully resonate with me, others that I'm unfamiliar with.
And yet everything about this film feels refreshing and familiar. To me, Dramarama perfectly executed the atmosphere of a highschool friend group of this type, to the point where I, as the viewer, felt part of it, included in this peculiar friendgroup.
There's this constant sense of familiarity, like I've been there, done that, like somewhere, somehow, I've known these five kids for a while.
The acting isn't great all around, and neither is the execution; but this genuinely feels like a passion project, an almost home-made experience, and a love letter to a specific kind of childhood. Well, and also a love letter to nerdy, gay theater kids.
There's something simply so refreshing in the simplicity of this movie. The lack of dramatic movie, the lack of a true climax, that makes it so different from most movies we get nowadays that it feels special in every way.
Is it too early to call this a classic? Because to me, it efinitely has the potential to be one.
In either case, I can't say Dramarama is truly a perfect film; perhaps not even worth the 9/10 I gave it, at least not from an objective point of view. Yet this resonated with me so deeply, that a 9 was the minimum I could give.
And yet everything about this film feels refreshing and familiar. To me, Dramarama perfectly executed the atmosphere of a highschool friend group of this type, to the point where I, as the viewer, felt part of it, included in this peculiar friendgroup.
There's this constant sense of familiarity, like I've been there, done that, like somewhere, somehow, I've known these five kids for a while.
The acting isn't great all around, and neither is the execution; but this genuinely feels like a passion project, an almost home-made experience, and a love letter to a specific kind of childhood. Well, and also a love letter to nerdy, gay theater kids.
There's something simply so refreshing in the simplicity of this movie. The lack of dramatic movie, the lack of a true climax, that makes it so different from most movies we get nowadays that it feels special in every way.
Is it too early to call this a classic? Because to me, it efinitely has the potential to be one.
In either case, I can't say Dramarama is truly a perfect film; perhaps not even worth the 9/10 I gave it, at least not from an objective point of view. Yet this resonated with me so deeply, that a 9 was the minimum I could give.