(Brooker, 2011)
A couple of days ago, I watched the film ‘One day’ and fell in love with it straight away, I was expecting a very typical Romantic comedy but what I got what something completely different. I first noticed that is was a Film 4 film, which instantly excited me as I knew straight away I wouldn’t be in for a typical love story. Film 4 have also produced other contemporary films such as ‘This is England’ where Shaun Meadows shows the “struggle of a portrait of working-class life” (Ebert, 2007). The story shows real story’s about real people, not sugar coating with a happy ending.
(Ebert, 2007)
“One day is that reality is rarely what we were expecting” (Brooker, 2011). David Nicholls the writer of the novel ‘One day’ likens his book to “flicking through a photo album” (Brooker, 2011) (which is a very similar effect that we are trying to create) it does not conform to a typical love story they meet, they fall in love, babies and marriage etc. It shows a real relationship between two people that at times hate each other. An example of this reality the film sets out to portray is the fact that we don’t even see the night when the couple finally have sex, the only thing that is shown is its consequences. This reminds the audience that the sex really isn’t that important, it isn’t what defines the relationship and its consequences can ruin a friendship. There are arguments and conversations in the film that the audience can really relate to. This style and reliability is the effect we are aiming to create in all of our writing. I instantly thought of our theatre company when watching this film, as we don’t want to miss out any of the hard bits in a relationship, we want the audience to think ‘Yes that’s what I do’ we want to tell the stories that at times probably aren’t as interesting as two people falling in love at first sight but this doesn’t mean they are not important and don’t have the right to be told!
Works cited
Brooker, W. (2011) Film review: One Day [online] London: At the heart of the education debate. Available from: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/417189.article [Accessed 4 April 2014].
Ebert, R. (2007) This is england review [Online] London:RogerEbert Avaiable from http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/this-is-england-2007 [Accessed 6 April 2014]