The Drama of Sublimation: Ugly Truths, Radicalised Youth and the Crisis of Connection

Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama arrives like a Molotov cocktail lobbed into the wedding-industrial complex. Zendaya’s Emma and Robert Pattinson’s Charlie are the sort of couple neoliberal culture sells us as aspirational: cultured, attractive, ostensibly secure in Boston’s creative class. He’s a museum curator; she’s a literary editor. Their meet-cute is awkward-cute, their engagement…

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The Drama of Sublimation: Ugly Truths, Radicalised Youth and the Crisis of Connection

Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama arrives like a Molotov cocktail lobbed into the wedding-industrial complex. Zendaya’s Emma and Robert Pattinson’s Charlie are the sort of couple neoliberal culture sel…

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