One Day reminds us that God works through all our stories
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Tony Wilson2024-02-28T15:45:00
The Netflix adaptation of David Nicholl’s book uses story and time to reveal how Dexter and Emma are formed by events and choices. It’s the same way that God writes all our stories, says Tony Wilson
Many of us who have just finished watching the Netflix serialisation of One Day (spoiler alert) will have been drawn in by the stellar performances by Ambika Mod (Emma) and Leo Woodall (Dexter), the excellent screenplay and direction.
By chance, the story, based on the novel by David Nicholls, tracks my era perfectly. Dexter and Emma graduate on the same day as me in 1988. Yes, we really all did have to use telephone boxes to call people when we weren’t at home; we couldn’t find our way with Google Maps and we did spend hours recording mix tapes to share with our friends.
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