August 20, 2011   90 notes

Why "One Day" Is the Most Toxic Romance of the Year

Adapted from David Nicholls‘ heralded novel, director Lone Scherfig’s drama One Day aims to lure women in with a crush-worthy leading man Jim Sturgess, the cute but non-threatening romantic hero of Across the Universe, and a modern chick flick mega-star Anne Hathaway. Couple the casting with the sentimental trailer, passion-filled promotional poster and a PG-13 rating, and it’s clear that Scherfig and the film’s producers are gunning for a female audience that includes a large contingent of young and impressionable girls. This makes the film’s message of a woman’s worth all the more infuriating. To be succinct, through this story of frequently near-miss lovers, Scherfig seems to declare a woman’s purpose in life is to better the man she loves after sufficiently making herself worthy of his notice. It’s a demoralizing message that curiously devalues both men and women. And so I don’t come here to review One Day; I come here to eviscerate it.

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    Yes. ALL OF THIS. This movie made me want to die.
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    ***** Think I’ll take a rain check on this one. Thanks.
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    Amazing commentary^
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    [Spoiler-y!] I think this review hits quite a few of the major issues with this film. Yet again, I’m glad I saw this...
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    Interesting. I mean, that bit is in the trailer where some objective character is like “you made him better, and in...
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    To each there own…I think Jezebel might be a little sensitive here based on some Hathaway prejudice.
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    I’m only one paragraph in to the actual description of the movie and it already sounds like the most uncomfortable movie...
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