This last summer, I both read the book and watched the movie Everyday. This story follows an entity named A that is displaced from one body to the next living as that person for one day. I read the book first and was excited to watch the movie as it had been on my list of movies to watch before I even had read the book. I enjoyed it, but ultimately I was disappointed.

One of the things that made me enjoy the book, so much was all the difficult topics it covered. It discussed depression, addiction, living in poverty, LGTQ+ issues, and many more. It handled them well and presented the message throughout that we all go through things that others don’t see, and at the end of the day, we are similar in many ways we may not realize.

The movie kind of touched on this, but not to the extent of the book. The movie focused on the romance part of the novel. Which don’t get me wrong, I’m a hopeless romantic and love a good love story as much as the next person, still, I think they missed out on some powerful messages by only having the romance plotline.

I will relent that the way the book was written, first-person perspective of someone who changes bodies every day, is difficult to transfer over into film easily. This makes it easier to focus on the love story, but by only following this storyline, they cut out A’s main adversary, an older entity that lived life the same way as A, which provided much of the driving action in the book.

Overall, I have to stand by the fact that the book was better. The movie just didn’t match the depth and overall message of the book that I loved so much. Separate from the book, I think that the movie was good and I would have no issue with it. But after reading the book, I can’t help but see all the missed opportunities that they could have taken.

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