A story of a new kind of love; one that changes day by day. “Everyday” breaks every boundary previously set in the film romance genre. “Everyday” is the story about “A” (played by multiple actors throughout the movie), someone who wakes up in a different body every single day, and a story about Ri (Angouri Rice), a highschool girl just trying to live her life as best as she can. That is until “A” turns her world upside down.
The movie breaks the stereotypical idea that a romance movie based in high school must be between a guy and a girl. The movie is all about a person who fell in love with another person; it did not matter if they were a guy, girl, white, Black, Asian or anybody else; the film embodies what truly matters in a relationship. Ri is the perfect counterpart to “A,” someone who does not see skin, gender, sex, body; they only see the person behind each face. Typical boy meets girl movies do not break these boundaries, but “Everyday” shows that love can happen to anyone if the right person is willing to take a chance on love.
While the movie was amazing on breaking boundaries and stereotypes, it to come up short in plot value. The entire film has the two main characters who are trying to understand one another and learn to accept each other as they are. Other than the evolving love story between the two, the only other thing that happens is “A” trying to figure out how to make things work between them.
The ending comes at you suddenly and seems to derail everything that the movie has been leading up to. This leaves you questioning why you watched it in the first place. You think the movie was going to end a certain way and that thought was taken from the viewer. The movie could have been thought out better than what was produced, but they gave us the sappy love story every typical high school romance movie goer wants to see, just with a few twists and turns along the way.
With its flaws, the movie seems to be doing well enough in theaters. According to Box Office Mojo, “Everyday” came in ninth on its opening weekend of Feb. 23. Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie a 52% on the Tomatometer.