One Week

 

 

This is a black and white silent film with subtitles explaining what is happening. Directed and acted out by Buster Keaton. In the instruction of the film it shows two young people getting married and travelling to their new house which they had been gifted by a friend or family member. with antics on the way to the house with the purvey driver they finally arrive at the destination where they find out they have a box full with house parts which means they have to create their own house.

 

 A little bit later into the week an man came delivering a piano holding it above his head with one hand, passes it over to buster who drops the piano straight on top of him which makes him not able to move. The delivery guy picks the piano up off of him and later walks off after he gets the signature he needs to confirm delivery.

 

 

 

 He tries lifting his piano through the window with a rope leverage but his roof starts collapsing like it was elasticated. which fires his friend into the roof when he lets go. he eventually gets the piano in the house. It jumps to the next scene after a picture showing "a perfect day" has appeared.

 

 

 

His wife is in the bath whilst he is trying to put the chimney on the roof, if keeps jumping to him then his wife in the bath, she drops the soap out the bath she goes to reach for the soap, stops then the camera man puts his hands over the lens so you cant see her naked.

 

 

 

The next day which is Friday the 13th he has guests come over and he shows them to their rooms, whilst he is doing this he realises his roof is leaking so he goes outside to explore and find out why. When he goes outside he experiences heavy winds and strong rain, when he tries to fix the leak his house starts spinning like a merry-go round. He is trying to push it back in place but the winds were to strong.

 

 

 

The next day a man comes up to them telling them that they are in to wrong lot so they have to transport their house across the train lines. This is were it gets even worse for the newly weds. The car breaks in half whilst transporting the house across the tracks, even worse when their is a train trying to get past. The train narrowly misses the house so they are relieved. But what they do not realise is that another train is coming the opposite way and smashes through the house.

 

 

I thought that "One Week" was a very good silent film, you could tell what was happening even without words or sounds. You could see the comedic sides to it with the gestures and the things happening around Buster which made it funny.