“Unraveling Secrets: Is ‘Playdate’ the Screenplay That Redefines Friendship?”
That moment occurs near the halfway point, when Alice and Katrine are going through their old elementary school yearbook (they had those??) and Katrine leans in and kisses Alice.
When I see moments like this, I smell desperation. Writers tend to only break out shocking moments when the script isn’t working. I’ve been guilty of this myself. You can tell your script isn’t firing on all cylinders. You’re not sure why. So, you think, maybe if I make something shocking happen, it will fix it.
It never fixes it. It only ends up confusing the reader. There is nothing in the story or characters that have been set up whereby Katrine trying to kiss Alice is authentically motivated. It’s all writer-created.
