In Which We Watch Every Day
Feb. 24th, 2018 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aI can't remember the last time K. and I saw a romantic move together. That's in large part because we see just one or two movies a year at the theatre. Probably Winter's Tale, which we saw on Valentine's Day 2014, and before that maybe Kate & Leopold, which we saw on Christmas 2001. No, there was an Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) in there too. Anyway, not a lot.
Anywho, we saw Every Day today, which I knew was a romantic movie, but which I did not know was a teenage romance.
The movie has a great premise: a kid (spirit? entity?) switches body every day, appearing in someone else's life for 24 hours. The movie did a great job of touching upon the potentially creepy elements of the premise and dispelling them, and also did a good job of really considering the possibilities.
There was also a lot of great messaging in the movie: you can make a mark; people change, and we can choose to change with them; people are different, but they're also the same; there aren't real barriers unless we create them; love for what's inside. It was also very diverse (though sometimes a bit on the nose about that).
The actress who plays the non-jumping protagonist totally carried the movie, which she needed to. Angourie Rice. I wouldn't be surprised if we see more of her. (Oh, hey, I see she was in Spider-Man: Homecoming, which we have waiting to watch, so we'll see here there, though I wouldn't have placed here as a Betty Brant. More like a Gwen Stacy.)
The plotting was generally pretty good, though sloppy in a few places. There was one really bad character moment that was clearly there solely to create drama and one really bad dangling plotline at the end concerning the girl's father. I couldn't figure out if they purposefully left it dangling, or if they actually didn't know what they were implying with their plots!
Anywho, no award winner here, but a fun bit of speculative fiction and generally an emotionally touching movie.
Anywho, we saw Every Day today, which I knew was a romantic movie, but which I did not know was a teenage romance.
The movie has a great premise: a kid (spirit? entity?) switches body every day, appearing in someone else's life for 24 hours. The movie did a great job of touching upon the potentially creepy elements of the premise and dispelling them, and also did a good job of really considering the possibilities.
There was also a lot of great messaging in the movie: you can make a mark; people change, and we can choose to change with them; people are different, but they're also the same; there aren't real barriers unless we create them; love for what's inside. It was also very diverse (though sometimes a bit on the nose about that).
The actress who plays the non-jumping protagonist totally carried the movie, which she needed to. Angourie Rice. I wouldn't be surprised if we see more of her. (Oh, hey, I see she was in Spider-Man: Homecoming, which we have waiting to watch, so we'll see here there, though I wouldn't have placed here as a Betty Brant. More like a Gwen Stacy.)
The plotting was generally pretty good, though sloppy in a few places. There was one really bad character moment that was clearly there solely to create drama and one really bad dangling plotline at the end concerning the girl's father. I couldn't figure out if they purposefully left it dangling, or if they actually didn't know what they were implying with their plots!
Anywho, no award winner here, but a fun bit of speculative fiction and generally an emotionally touching movie.