By: Tatiana Diaz
Staff Writer
With some people, we are destined to become lifelong friends. It can’t be planned that way. Chance plays a role. There is an underlying harmony that persists despite the whims of fate. When childhood sweethearts marry after not seeing each other for 30 or 40 years, it makes perfect sense to me. The instinctive understanding is there. One Day is a film based on the David Nicholls best-seller about a boy and girl who graduated from the University of Edinburgh on July 15, 1988, and spend the night together. The story follows them by dropping in on July 15th of their lives year after year, which is a useful device, because it eliminates the need to show us the events of the other days of their years. Success, failure, marriages, and divorce, can take place off-screen if necessary. What matters is their accumulating effects. Life has its way of bringing them together for periodic updates. Some of these meetings are intentional, some accidental. The thread is never broken, not even after Dexter marries, and Emma takes up with Ian since Emma and Dexter are both beautiful people, there is no imbalance there. It is all in character. Emma has it.