A couple of days ago, I watched another movie directed by Lone Scherfig : One Day (2011) featuring my favorite Jim Sturgess and Anne Hathaway. This movie is a book adaptation by David Nicholls. Previously I wrote about a movie called Education (2009) directed by the same guy, read here.
The movie is about two young college graduates, who began a long friendship that lasted over 20 years. Both were pretty much different, Emma was an English graduate that dreamed of being a writer and worked herself off to survive, eventually doing things that she hated to do. Dexter, already a son of a rich family, became a successful TV presenter and famous. And they were still friends on and off. I am not good at summarizing a story, so you can read the summary here instead.
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I've been meaning to watch the movie since I read the book last year. Personally, I like the book better, the movie seemed to show a lot of short snippets of years they spent together, it's almost like a fast-forwarded version of the book, almost intangible, vaguely attached. From the movie, I could not grasp the meaning of their really close friendship, their feelings, and emotions, their loss and love, it was all too weak. I would like for you to read the book instead.
PS: I always watch movie adaptations from books just for the sake of criticizing it! Or comparing, I guess. Some are both good, some are better written, and some are better in movies.
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