Y is for Yes Day

September 2024 Movie Challenge-Day 25

As with most of the rest of this week, my choices for films starting with the letter Y were very slim. In selecting films, I filtered Letterboxd by films available on streaming services which gave me just one option for Y, so before writing this I expanded my search to all films I’ve previously logged on Letterboxd and only had five films, three of them shorts. The only other Y movie I have logged is You’ve Got Mail which would have been a fun revisit.

The Torres family are on a mission to say “YES” to everything for a day. That includes unlimited ice cream and allowing the kids to dress their parents.

So even though I just watched the Netflix film Yes Day with my kids last fall in November, I pulled it back up and actually got to watch one of these films with one of my kids. And that is probably the only way to watch this film and enjoy it, with kids.

The whole conceit of the film is that the “Yes Day” is something that families do together. It’s the sad truth of our modern world that families are rarely all together and even when we are together in the same physical space, we are often not together in a mental or emotional or attentional space. We sit in the same rooms sending Tik Toks or Instagram reels to each other. We watch movies at the same time, but five different movies on five different devices. Even when we’re not on electronic devices, families are often pulled in different directions from dance classes to soccer practices, PTA meetings to second jobs.