heh... just a little peek into my twisted mind....

Charlie is a spineless idiot who lets other people's reactions influence his opinions. When Emma first "confesses" the worst thing she's ever done, he first laughs it off and then looks around and reassess his reaction to match with Rachel.

He pretends to not believe Emma at first to let other people react first and then copies their reaction.

Actually everyone at that table is a piece of shit. Charlie allegedly cyberbullied someone so bad he got the kids entire family to change town. But apparently it doesn't count because "he was 14".

Rachel closed an allegedly mentally challenged kid closed in a cabinet in a camper in the middle of nowhere and lied to the authorities when they asked her if she knew where he was.

Mike used her ex girlfriend as a meat shield against a feral dog. This is probably the most understandable one since in a moment of panic we all do stupid stuff. Still a shitty thing to do, but he also seems to be the only one to feel genuine remorse about this

And what does Emma do? Emma plans a school shoting, never goes through with it and then becomes a gun violence activist. But somehow she's an evil psychopath monster serial killer for thinking about killing people when she was 15. I guess the cut off age for "it doesn't matter" is 14, then.

The whole movie is an exercise in frustration towards Charlie, who supposedly knows Emma and loves her but somehow everyone else's opinion is more important than Emma's feelings and his own damn feelings and opinions. He switches from opinion to opinion asking shitty person after shitty person. It doesn't surprise me that Rachel was his friend first, i guess shit attracts flies.

I genuinely cannot imagine what it would feel like to be judged for the violent impulses I felt when I was a depressed and suicidal teen. These are grown ass people, for all of them this happened more than 15 years ago. How dare you imply that this person is the same person they were as a desperate teenager. It's absurd on so many levels.

And don't get me started on Rachel's bum ass speech at their actual wedding. She said she had to ask her cousin Sam what she thought about all of this and if she was ok with her still going to the wedding. She said that if Sam told her no, she would not go. CLEARLY Sam (the actual school shooting victim) didn't think Rachel should ditch the wedding. So tell we why would you show up and be passive aggressive the whole night towards THE NEWLYWEDS. No one forced you to go. Why even ask your cousin if this is how you're gonna act? Clealry you didn't WANT to go.

Going back to Charlie, it really is absurd that he's doubting his bride to be so much that he starts having panic attacks and almost cheats on her. Again, spineless idiot who absorbs other people's opinion without forming his own.

He answered his own question when he lied to Rachel about Emma being traumatized by her "best friend's passing". Everyone has violent impulses but in america where you're constantly surrounded by guns and news of mass shootings, those violent impulses might take the form of the planning of a mass shooting.

Who knows how many people plan one and don't go through with it? Are they psychopaths? All of them? Every single person who's thought something violent or "planned" on doing something violent without going through with it should be punished and judged as if they'd actually committed the crime?