One Day
2011 Directed by Lone Scherfig
Synopsis
Twenty years. Two people.
A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
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March Madness 2013 – No Re-Watch Edition
Dear Ms. Hathaway,
I have enjoyed just about everything you have ever done. I would definitely call myself a big fan. But can I be frank here? One Day is bollocks. It's easily the worst film I have seen so far from you.
Oh, you look quite lovely in it. Even when they try to make you frumpy, your beauty shines through. But you're saddled with an uninteresting character. And your accent wavered now and then. (I don't remember you struggling with the accent in Becoming Jane, but maybe this one was a different regional dialect.) Jim Sturgess, who played leading man Dexter, comes out even worse. His character is downright unlikable.
But…
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One Day is a film striving for profundity but ends up paddling in a sea of platitudes and triteness. David Nicholls adapts his own novel for the screen and I can only assume something was still lost in translation as it is hard to imagine such a lifeless tale could become a best selling sensation. The story of following two mismatched but destined to be together people on the same date over a couple of decades is one ripe with potential but the film is saddled by never going deep enough or exploring their relationship to the full.
Whilst the film’s structure affords the chance to see each of them make mistakes and grow it also stops you from investing…
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Sí, es una enorme cursilada, pero hay un juego estructural en el guión que me gusta. Y es que después de la crónica, año tras año, de todos los 15 de julio, veinte años de vida de ambos, se presenta un último momento desfasado de la rigidez de la efeméride, en la que se explicaría la solidez de la unión en los amigos-pareja... como una historia que no se quería contar pero se le escapa al esquema original del filme. Y ese desfase recupera el sentido total de la historia, obviamente en coordenadas románticas-cursilonas. Por otro lado es un esquema semejante al de Los detectives salvajes, la novela de Roberto Bolaño. Quién haya leído y haya visto entenderá (y acá ya entra la deformación sentimental que tiene uno y ni modo, me emocioné como quinceañera en pijama y con un litro de helado napolitano al lado. Ya sé, apesto).
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For being a story about soulmates whose love traverses decades, it's kind of impressive that Lone Scherfig made the most passionless and antiseptic movie in recent memory. He doesn't even go for the low-hanging fruit of a standard tearjerker, instead creating a movie that just kind of... is. I didn't laugh. I didn't cry. I didn't feel joyful, or upset, or manipulated. I didn't care about anything that happened to any of the characters. If this film were a color, it would be taupe. If it were a meal, it would be a slab of unseasoned tofu wiggling meekly on a serving dish.
The story? Well, Dexter meets Emma on July 15, 1988 and then the movie revisits them on…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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fuck this gay earth. The best thing in this movie is Dex's gray hair, what a glorious fail in age progression. :)
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I fell in love with this book and just had to see the movie. I will say that this is a once in a lifetime movie. It isn't better than the book (no movie really is) but it's not a terrible movie. It lives up exactly to the reader's expectations. It was like the director took some of the scenes straight from my head and put them on the screen. It was brilliance. I was elated by the casting and the dialogue fit perfectly. All in all this movie is a must see for those who have read the book and a great movie even if you haven't read it.
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This was mostly depressing, although the story was oddly realistic in some ways it was also very Hollywood. Quite dull.
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SO schlocky and manipulative. Very slow moving, so if you're not on board with it you are in for a LONG ride. Very paint by numbers, generic and by the time the "emotional" climax came, I just felt condescended to. Yuck.
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So cute
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I watched this because I assumed I would maybe relate to it.
things I could relate to:
-there was a girl and a guy in this film (I am a girl, I know some guys).
-anne hathaway's accent isn't very good (I can't do a very good accent either).
-time passes (time passes for me too)ehhhh I didn't like the ending. but I liked the fonts.
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Trite.
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I actually enjoyed One Day a hell of a lot more than I thought I would. It's a rather sad film, but there are a few moments of actual happiness throughout. The relationship between Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess feels real, and the two have a pretty good chemistry between them. Hathaway, while certainly not the most gorgeous woman in the world, has this cute quality about her that just makes her so charming and lovely. Sure, there's moments that are predictable, but on a whole, One Day is a pretty solid film. It's certainly not the feel-good hit of the summer, though.
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Tear jerking emotional ride.