In class we discussed alternative story lines; breaking away from linearity through flashbacks or flash forwards. In Lone Scherfig’s romance One Day (2011) Emma and Dexter meet the night of their college graduation and the film cuts to the same date of the following year showing their buddying friendship and does so for 15 years as the two grow less close. We follow the two individual stories year after year as they both undergo life altering changes. The two separated lovers are finally able to make a relationship work and get married. The film jumps to the final year where unfortunately Emma is killed in a car accident. The film cuts from a a lonely Dexter back to the first day they met and shows everything that happened that day that they did not show the viewer before. I felt this was a really good example of breaking linearity. This break from linearity made the movie so powerful and touching because to the viewer, at that point, Emma was a ghost of sorts.