(500) Days of Summer
This is not a love story, this is a story about love.
Tom(Joseph Gordon-Levitt) a hopeless romantic who when he meets Summer (Zooey Deschanel) believes he has found his one true love. However life had a different plan in mind. As Tom gets swept into a whirlwind romance with Summer he soon learns that love does not always go according to plan.
Right off the rip the narrator informs us that this story doesn't end well and it's certainly not a love story. That being said 500 days is a very witty comedy/drama about the scars that a failed relationship can leave on a person. What is great about this film is that most viewers will easily relate to either Tom or Summer as both characters are from different ends of the spectrum. However in the course of the film they end up meeting in the middle of sorts which drives home the lessons learned from failed relationships point.
500 days doesn't follow a chronological flow but jumps around from day 1 to day 101 then to day 440. Not a fan of movies that don't follow a linear path? Don't worry it's not hard to follow at all and the cuts from day to day to day illustrate 500 days' central theme beautifully. The scene where Tom attends a party thrown by Summer shortly after their breakup is amazing. The match up of expected outcome and reality was inventive and nicely shot. It illustrates how we often set up a situation in our minds to go one way and the reality of it can often be and usually is entirely different.
The acting from Gordon-Levitt and Deschanel are amazing! At several points in the film you feel deeply for them and at the same time understand why the relationship failed. The sidekick like co-workers and the sharp tongued sister are funny at parts but generally forgettable. Marc Webb who until 500 days has done a handful of music themed projects did a great job on this film. The flow of the film is evenly placed with a few slow patches but nothing that would make it a deal breaker.
Overall- A great film about how a relationship changes one from the little things to the big things.
Rating - 5 stars
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