Laura Reviews: One Day!

Apologies for this going up a day late. I wrote this on Word yesterday but the internet was playing up so never posted it :/ Anyway; here we go.

This is about the book One Day by David Nicholls and the film adaptation of this book, not literally about one day of my life...

Basically, the two main characters are Emma and Dex and it is about this one day, throughout the years of their lives. I don't want to say too much otherwise I'll give it away, and I am good at giving things away. But I advice you to read the book. The book is brilliant despite one part of it being awful. There is an ending to the book, obviously, but to me there are almost two endings. The actual physical ending of the book and then the other ending (I would say more about this ending but it would give too much away...sorry! You'll just have to read it to find out!). I like the actual physical ending of the book, I like the way it has been done. But I absolutely hate the other ending. It is stupid and annoyingly written.

And the film is basically the same. If you don't enjoy the book, then don't watch the film. I advice you to read the book first as then you understand what is going on. I watched the film for the first time on Wednesday with my mum and I had to keep telling her what was going on as she didn't understand parts of it. I liked the endings the same in the film as I did the book; I liked the actual ending but not the other ending. Which was even more stupid in the film.

Another point to the film, if you really don't like bad English accent's then prepare yourself. Anne Hathaway plays Emma and puts on an English accent which is terrible to begin with but after a while you get used to it (well, I did at least!).

The book is great though and I do encourage you to try and read it. The film is a bit pointless and you probably won't understand it without the book, you might want to give the film a miss altogether.

Book: *****
Film: ***