Every Day the movie ****spoiler alert***
Disclaimer: I try to be inclusive by calling A 'they'. Please excuse me if I deviated and said 'he' at any point because I live in this society and my brain characterized A as a boy since that is the way Rhiannon first met A. I am not intending to be offensive. It is an honest mistake.
Okay, listen, Linda. Linda! Listen. I really liked this book. Don’t just read the book and watch the movie because I say so, though. I’m not one of those people who become upset when the movie doesn’t adhere strictly to the book. This is mainly because my memory is shit and I cannot usually even remember the details of the book.
This movie was perfect to me. I’ve been on a good movie roll lately. (It started with Black Panther, but that will come later if I can get myself to finish.)
What we have is a non-gendered or all-gendered soul. I don’t know how to word it. Whatever the case. ‘A’ is just a soul. The conscious mind that makes us all unique. A is what the main character calls him-/her-/themselves. A flits from body to body for 24 hrs at a time. A doesn’t tell anyone of his/her/their existence because really who would believe them, anyway? However, A meets someone who can’t be ignored. They meet a girlfriend, Rhiannon, while living the life of the girl’s boyfriend, Justin. Regularly, Justin is not a good boyfriend, but A decides to make their one day together great. So, they skip school and Rhiannon gets the boyfriend she always wanted out of Justin. Except Justin isn’t in charge; A is the one with whom she feels the connection.
After their perfect day, A can’t get Rhiannon out of their mind so the next contact comes in the form of a, normally, ultra-religious boy who approaches her during a song she plays for Justin at a party. Justin doesn’t really remember the day and he definitely doesn’t like the song like he did during their skip day. She and the boy dance with abandon to their song. When Justin came to break things up, A says that he is the party host's gay cousin. After Justin leaves, they go to a tree house to talk and the connection is there between them again. Unfortunately, Justin speaks with his friend, Steve, about his gay cousin flirting with his girlfriend. Of course, Steve tells him that he doesn’t have a gay cousin at the party by that name. (Can’t remember this guy’s name.)
This is one of the first times in, what we can assume is, a long time that A makes a mistake. They have figured out that midnight is when they get pushed out. While enjoying their time at the party, A misses the alarms he sets for 11 and 11:50pm every day and ends up half way back to the host body’s house on the side of the highway, asleep. Another mistake A made was that they forgot to scrub the host body’s phone and he was able to see A’s Instagram page where A posts a pic as the person whose life A’s taken over for that day. Thankfully A gets his new host’s phone soon after and changes the password before the old host was able to screenshot any of the pics.
At this point, A goes out of their way to convince Rhiannon that every day they are the same soul that she encountered at various points. Meanwhile, Rhiannon is still trying to get Justin to open up and care about her the way he did that one fine day out of their relationship to no avail.
Eventually, Rhiannon and A get to the point where they make contact every day and meet almost every day, too. One of the host’s was going on a trip to Hawaii with his family and Rhiannon came to get them to avoid A going to another state.
We find out that A never enters the same host twice, they are always their age (at this point in time 16), and they are always controlling a host within the vicinity of the last host.
The movie takes us through the various trials of being, and being with, a different person, including gender, every day.
After, A takes over Rhiannon’s body by a stroke of dumb luck, A decides to leave behind memories for Rhiannon to look back on and enjoy which they’ve never done before.
The next day Rhiannon says she feels a clarity that she never felt and finally breaks up with her bad boyfriend.
A eventually enters the body of Rhiannon’s science classmate, Alex. A loves Alex. I believe A thinks Alex’s spirit is most closely aligned with them. Rhiannon asks A to stay after midnight when the push comes. A manages to do it. A does that for a while, but after missing Alex’s birthday party, A starts to feel guilty. A doesn’t want to push Alex out of his great life. A also wants Rhiannon to think about how isolating a future with them would be as they get older because she wouldn’t be able to tell her family about the person she’s in a committed relationship with for…obvious reasons. A also points out that as they get older it will be harder not to leave a mark on the host’s life if the hosts are married and/or have children and A cheats with Rhiannon.
A wants Rhiannon to fall in love with Alex while A tries to figure out their own life.
Rhiannon is hesitant, but Alex says something that A said during their first day together and she seems to open up to the idea.
Before Rhiannon and A separated, Rhiannon asked A to start leaving memories for the hosts because it brought her such peace. A promises to do so and they do. A’s next host is a rich girl and they make their way far away from Rhiannon. They end up in New York.
In the end, A stops (I assume) posting pics of their hosts' faces and just posts pics of things they’re doing. Rhiannon follows on Instagram, but is giving Alex a chance, too.
My thoughts:
I friggin’ loved this movie so much. I love Love and this movie was just…. Ah. I liked how A grew up to be so kind and decent without the constraints of one set of parents who may have been biased about how a girl, boy, gender fluid, and every one in between, should behave because at some point A was all of them. I don’t know exactly how close the movie gets to the book, but it gets close enough.
I do know that A met a man who was like him and wanted A to keep a host’s body, in the book. In the book, A didn’t want to ever keep anyone from their body if they could help it.
A did find a good guy for Rhiannon, but it wasn’t someone she knew. I thought that was a good way to tie things up (for now) for Rhiannon.
The book came out a few years ago and it ends on a bit of an ambiguous note, but while I was looking for a way to beseech of the author to finish A’s story, I found out that the next book is coming out October 2nd of this year. It’s called Someday. I am leaving a link below to pre-order the book on Amazon.
My taste in books and movies can be on the strange side, but if you liked the book and don’t have a problem if a movie based on a book doesn’t stick to the exact letter of the book, then this movie is for you!
https://www.amazon.com/Someday
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