Or in other words, if a book just will not translate into the big screen, let it be in the old school print reality, where it belongs... As a big fan of Nicholls' book One Day, I was really looking forward to its adaptation. I was curious how Lone Scherfig was going to render the book's witty dialogues, work with the fact that each chapter depicts just one day from the characters' life over the span of twenty years, and above all, how she was going to make the viewers feel like we know Dex and Em forever...
Well, she did not, in my humble opinion anyway...Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess are both fantastic and definitely capture the essence of their characters, yet what made the book fresh, intriguing and simply gripping, falls flat in the movie. It seems that yet again the devil is in the details as much as inbetween the lines. Without the humour and brilliant sarcastic intelligence defining Nicholls' book for me, what we are left with is altogether pleasant, but a bit blant love story of two friends who discover years later that they do love each other, only then it is too late. It has been done way too many times to stand out. Definitely a big one zero for the book on this one...
No comments:
Post a Comment