This movie has no point, it portrays the bad side of sexual liberation for women and cheaters and neither condemns it nor argues for it. The characters are all terrible people with the exception of Ema's boyfriend who of course gets his heart broken by the sexually liberated Ema, I felt so bad for him.
Ema's friends dont reprimand her for her immoral actions instead of support her under the wicked guise of feminism and comradery. Drew does well for not breaking up with his gf over a romantic manipulator and power-confused (she feels powerful by commanding her romantic life at the expense of everyone involved in it, and she is confused because it is also on her own expense) and person like Ema but just by virtue of cheating alone he is a terrible person.
This movie tells you how unscrupulous some people can be without anyone that loved them ever knowing it (Ema admitting she did not feel morally wrong while cheating on Alex, her bf, in the past, under his nose, despite her knowing he was madly in love with her).
Ema is the cruelest most sociopathic character of the movie and everyone around her normalizes her actions and makes them out to be modern, when they are not, they are just fully sociopathic (for instance her engaging with Drew and pushing him to break up with his gf for her, despite knowing full well she will break his heart and leave him when she will go to Montreal anyway, and so she does and tells him not to visit her. All while she is never clear on anything, Drew gives her the conditional "but what if break up with my gf, would you then want me to visit you", to which she responds "you won't (break up with your gf)" but never answers whether she would want him to visit her if he did. She is an emotional and social manipulator par excelance.
Ema's friends dont reprimand her for her immoral actions instead of support her under the wicked guise of feminism and comradery. Drew does well for not breaking up with his gf over a romantic manipulator and power-confused (she feels powerful by commanding her romantic life at the expense of everyone involved in it, and she is confused because it is also on her own expense) and person like Ema but just by virtue of cheating alone he is a terrible person.
This movie tells you how unscrupulous some people can be without anyone that loved them ever knowing it (Ema admitting she did not feel morally wrong while cheating on Alex, her bf, in the past, under his nose, despite her knowing he was madly in love with her).
Ema is the cruelest most sociopathic character of the movie and everyone around her normalizes her actions and makes them out to be modern, when they are not, they are just fully sociopathic (for instance her engaging with Drew and pushing him to break up with his gf for her, despite knowing full well she will break his heart and leave him when she will go to Montreal anyway, and so she does and tells him not to visit her. All while she is never clear on anything, Drew gives her the conditional "but what if break up with my gf, would you then want me to visit you", to which she responds "you won't (break up with your gf)" but never answers whether she would want him to visit her if he did. She is an emotional and social manipulator par excelance.