One Week is a delightfully charming film with a simple but premise that is an encapsulation of the time. It's no longer possible to order a house from the Sears-Catalog and put it together, but it's a wonderful backdrop to Buster Keaton's first independent two reeler.

Essentially, things don't go quite as planned after the instructions are tampered with from a rejected suitor to the bride. The couple does their best but as the days tick by, crazier and crazier things happen to the house. When it got to the third day I didn't know where they could take the visual gags because it was already insane, but somehow they did it. There were multiple times that I got some serious chuckles. The entire scene with moving their deformed house was great. Keaton played with expectations with the train gag, and truthfully it caught me off-guard and I laughed pretty hard.

Ultimately, I think it's a wonderful introduction to Buster Keaton. I loved the physicality of his performance, but ultimately what I liked the most was reading about the development. Today, special effects are handled through CGI but in 1920 they had to come up with creative ways to film the scenes. I appreciate both, but I don't think we see enough of the practical effects and the scale of One Week was satisfying.