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Topic: One Day
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Stu Jamieson
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Posts: 524
From: Buccan, Qld, Australia
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted 09-03-2011 07:58 PM
If you're looking for a good weepie, you can do little better than One Day. It's a fabulous film but, boy, did it break my heart. After watching One Day you'll want to hurry home and cuddle your loved one, or if you don't have one, you'll wish you did.
The film follows the lives of a couple, Emma (Anne Hathaway) and Dex (Jim Sturgess), over a period of 20 or so years. We see their relationship briefly blossom amid a failed one night stand and then proceed to see-saw to and fro around the central truth that they are made for each other but neither are willing to consummate it; she for fear of rejection, and he because he fails to recognise its existence.
The film is structured beautifully, playing out the tribulations of the lives of these two people in annual steps before coming full circle with a complete account of their first dalliance and thereby affirming why their bond was so special. A thread of subtle humour keeps the film buoyant for the most part amid a clear undercurrent of sadness, hope and tragedy. The film allows you to experience on a deep visceral level what it is to lose almost everything and teaches you to deify all that you hold dear.
A film like this would be nothing without great performances and Hathaway is just fabulous. How could anyone not fall in love with her immediately? It's a subtle, beautiful performance, wearing her emotional fragility on her sleeve barely veiled by a facade of confidence and spark. Between this and Love and Other Drugs, however, she may wish to star in a comedy next.
This is my first experience of Sturgess and he fits the bill perfectly. We dislike him for his denial of Emma but we know he's a good guy locked within a shell of ego, self indulgence and self loathing and we (as with Emma) patiently await the emergence of his true heart.
Patricia Clarkson sounds weird with a Brit accent but she's great anyway. Hathaway's accent is not out of place at all, however; she speaks like a native.
As an essay on unrequited love and love lost, One Day underlines the importance of love or, more importantly, loving, and in finding silver linings in the face of tragedy. Love as if there were no tomorrow and when there is no tomorrow, it's not the end of the world; it's possible to move on, as torturous as that travail may be.
Even though the cruelty of the tragedy at times threatens to derail the delicate emotional balance of the film, its enduring impression is one of love affirmation, not despair. It reinvigorates your appreciation for what you have, inspiring you to grasp all that you hold dear with both hands and never let it go.
9 out of 10
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