One Day

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in English language the movie is changed why??

One Day

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After the poor trailers and even poorer reviews, I wasn't expecting anything from this film but the interesting premise still motivated me to watch it. As anticipated, it was a trainwreck essentially from the start. For starters, it's structured all wrong; it feels so rushed through in a large part, with a lot of the focus only being on three or four days over the course of two decades. Of course with that being said, it never even feels like two decades have past. They change the actors looks slightly and I like that they didn't try to go overboard with the makeup and everything, but they look too old at the beginning and way too young at the end. What's worse though is that it doesn't feel like the time progresses at all. It feels like you're watching a day-by-day story as opposed to one that passes over years. I think the structure messes this up, but I also have to put fault on the actors for this. In the later years they should feel like the same people who have lived the experiences we've seen throughout the film, but they really don't. It's like they read the scenes for each new year and decided to play the characters differently in each year. I really wish that Sturgess would live up to the potential I think he has, but he keeps choosing awful roles and as his counterpoint Anne Hathaway is as awful as ever. People put way too much focus on judging accents as the key to a performance, but her accent is so off the charts absurd here it borders on hilarious. She goes through at least three different accents, just in one scene. An interesting premise, but practically everyone dropped the ball here. A real shame from Lone Scherfig, coming off the sensational An Education.

In the late 80s a girl named Emma (Anne Hathaway) is a college student who meets fellow graduate Dexter (Jim Sturgess). They're about to sleep together one evening but decide to remain friends instead. Over the course of twenty years we see how circumstances and other people have kept them divided when they just want to be together. Dexter finds himself hosting a ghastly television show, while being warned by his sick mother (Patricia Clarkson) that he isn't a particularly nice person anymore. He insists that he just wants to have fun, despite being critically panned and moving between women. Emma works her way up from a job in a fast food restaurant, to a teacher and then eventually into a successful author. To the distress of Dexter she has a serious relationship with an obnoxious comedian, which puts her real desires on hold. Late in the timeline, Dexter is married rather unhappily and has a baby girl to look after. An unlikeable leading man makes this one day too many. It's impossible to say what type of movie One Day is. It postures as a comedy but it barely raises a single laugh. And though it also lacks dramatic impact for much of its length too, its one climax is so shocking and over the top that it will leave a sour taste in your mouth. Do not consider this as a date movie. You will not be popular. You also have to wonder late in the movie what the point was. Director Lone Scherfig (An Education, 2009) tries to end things on a very syrupy note. That's very nice for one of the characters but unrewarding for the audience who have waded through twenty years in the lives of these unappealing characters for nothing. The message is ultimately a very obvious, unoriginal and simple one: that life pulls people in opposite directions but happiness can be found in one single moment. Using an extended chronological structure is a gimmick. It allows for little on screen titles to appear in the frame, just like in (500) Days of Summer (2009) but it refuses to enrich character. A film like Blue Valentine (2010) is infinitively more intelligent because it realises that character is structure. It contrasts the past and present day to visualise the changing personalities of its leads and the impact on their relationship. The script by David Nicholls, adapting his own novel, lacks this kind of sophistication. Having the film move through such an extensive period suggests that there will be arching transformations in the characters. But unfortunately Sturgess remains continuously unlikeable all throughout this movie. His character is arrogant, rude, promiscuous and irresponsible. And briefly touching on his fractured relationship with his parents does not make him anymore sympathetic. Patricia Clarkson is barely in this movie because she has so few scenes and I wasn't moved by her appearances as the film intended. One of the golden rules of the romantic comedy is broken here: you don't understand why Emma and Dexter belong together. This is a detriment to the film's plotting and the motives of the characters. We're left wondering what this apparently sophisticated woman continues to see in this buffoon, especially when she's already with better company. Even after that huge climax Dexter still has a moment of madness. Only at the very end does he wake up to himself. The actors aren't really to blame. Anne Hathaway is such a pleasant actress in almost everything she does, comedy or otherwise. But this sketchy, underwritten role wastes her talents and doesn't stretch her chops at all. She's made to look dorky and uptight with her over-sized glasses, only to move into little but quirkiness. And Jim Sturgess who I liked in Across the Universe (2007) and The Way Back (2010) is gifted too, with no shortage of personality. He just happens to be playing a real jerk. If that's what he intended, he certainly succeeded. As far as the rebirth of frank romantic-comedies goes this is a pretty uninspired and limp entry.

There is a lingering and persistent distraction throughout One Day which severely impairs the audience from becoming absorbed in the film. This is Anne Hathaway's atrocious accent. Many Americans have at varying degrees in the past successfully pulled off a believable British accent. However, Anne Hathaway's character, Emma Morley, sounds at different times Irish, Scottish, and American, but never British. It truly was irritating after awhile. Why didn't the filmmakers just cast a British actress? Or, if they were dead set on Hathaway playing Emma, then move the whole story to America. If not for the distracting aural miscues, this film would most likely be much more enjoyable. Emma and Dexter (Jim Sturgess) meet the night of college graduation at the tail end of an all night party. This is not a meet-cute either. They are the only two left as the last couple pairs off with each other; therefore, fate has thrown them together to have a one night stand. Things get in the way and they end up deciding to be friends and start a very long platonic relationship. This is mostly convincing as Emma is seen to be truly infatuated with Dexter who does not see her in the same light, in fact, he treats her rather poorly as the years go by. Graduation night was July 15th by the way so naturally the pair concocts a plan to meet up annually on that day or at least check in my telephone if this is not possible. Surprisingly, every July 15th is actually a pretty horrible, sad day for each of them. Very rarely is one or both of them in a good mood and happy with where their life is at when the film jumps forward to another July 15th. Furthermore, the film focuses much more on Dexter than Emma with extensive scenes concerning his alcoholism and career missteps. Emma even authors a successful book and it hardly gets a mention until Dexter happens upon it. This made me wonder that if Dexter was to have so much more attention and screen time than Emma, why all the fuss to make Anne Hathaway British? Since the screenplay was written by the same gentlemen who wrote the novel this film is based on, the story's climax is inevitable even though it is forced and manipulative. The scene is also very poorly shot. The director, Lone Scherfig, who made the brilliant An Education two years ago, completely misses the mark with this scene and the rest of the film suffers for it. The event is set up in a way that even people who venture out and see one movie a year will be able to see what is coming up. Another miscue is Patricia Clarkson's role as Dexter's mother. It feels her role has been severely cut during the editing process. Not only does she have dialogue in the preview which is not in the movie, but she only shows up in about two-three scenes, moves the plot along, and then she's out of there. I have not read the novel, but I guarantee she is a much larger presence on those pages than what seems to be a faint echo of her in this movie. P.S. There is an atrocious Elvis Costello song over the closing credits which destroys any lingering fondness or afterthoughts the audience may have been enjoying during the closing scenes.

Does life imitate art or does art imitate life? I'm one who tends to avoid the discussion entirely by saying "both." One Day is the most real (save a few accents) movie I've seen in a long time. It explores time and how it often slips away from us. Our hearts' desires are often decimated by bad timing, and the movie finds a variety of ways to demonstrate this. So in the case of One Day, art imitates life to the fullest, as we can all sympathize (if only a little) to crushed hopes and shattered dreams, though hopefully we eventually find our way. Anne Hathaway stars as insecure working-class woman Emma, who, for one reason or another is drawn to Dexter, (Jim Sturgess) a charming upper middle class man with a great amount of self-confidence. It may be hard to understand just what the two have on each other, but they are characters I'm familiar with. The woman who is way too into a man that's way too into himself, it happens and for the type, Dex is pretty likable. Em and Dex have nothing in common. But their opposite personalities do what a relationship should; make each other better. They are Yin and Yang, complementary opposites. An interesting technique used by One Day, is that we only get to see the events of a single day, July 15, for each of 20 plus years. Some of my peers have taken to calling this a gimmick. In a year where it seems every other film is either a sequel or a remake/reboot, (which critics and public alike have grown tired of) I feel fresh ideas should be applauded, even if it doesn't quite work. For me, however, it worked to perfection. Director Lone Scherfig (An Education) paints the picture of Em and Dex's up and down relationship with great finesse, never having too much happen on the date year to year. The filmmaker fills us in on what has taken place throughout each year, without conversations seeming inorganic. The cinematography is beautiful, especially a scene where our would-be lovers break all their rules by taking a dip at sunset. There's plenty of humor, joy, sadness, regret and a number of other emotions to be felt. I caution viewers that this isn't a romantic comedy, nor does it end like one. One Day is, however, easily one of the most heartfelt films of the year and should be celebrated for its bravery.