Review of One Day (2011) by Craig — 30 Aug 2011
While the characters seemed very real, likeable and down-to-earth, there seemed to be something missing from the film - it felt very flat. The two main characters' up-and-down relationship does gain a lot of empathy with the audience, and you're almost willing them to hurry up and be together.
It's a great story about loving someone who doesn't really feel the same way and so is easily relatable. The style is quite unique too, spanning events that happen on a certain date over 13 years. And this is also the film's downfall - there's not much time to get to know the characters and the consequences of their actions in that one day time frame.
The themes are also very universal - the struggle to find happiness in life and in oneself, and the all too hard search for love. Some great performances, especially by Jim Sturgess. Anne Hathaway's accent is a bit hit-and-miss, one minute being quite "BBC English" then going northern.
Not a soppy rom-com film either, which I was expecting, but brings more feelings of nostalgia than anything - maybe that's why it stirs up emotions of regret than anything else and makes you think more about how your own life is shaping up.
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This review of One Day (2011) was written by Craig on 30 Aug 2011.
One Day has generally received positive reviews.
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