Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Director: Marc Webb
Writers: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber
Staring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel
Rating: ★★★½
500 Days of Summer is a romantic comedy that isn't Hollywood
and fairy tales but harsh, painful and realistic but at the same time heart
warming. Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) believes in love and when seeing Summer
(Zooey Deschanel) he believes she's "the one" however Summer doesn't
believe in true love, despite this the two get close together and become more
than friends but problems arise when Tom wants to put "labels" on
their relationship. The film shows 500 days from the moment Tom first saw
Summer, flicking and skipping through the days back and forth to show how things changed and how things
were before.
Tom designs greeting cards but his true passion is
for architecture, one day at work at a monthly meeting Tom meets newly arrived
assistant Summer, and then and there falls for her. This sets up the scenes
where he hopelessly tries everything to talk to her, and for her to notice him
representing something many in the audience can relate to. Eventually after
some not so smooth conversations Tom and Summer become friends, but it soon
develops into more than just friends.Kissing in the photocopying room, endless cinema dates and
even shopping in Ikea makes Tom fall even more for Summer but he soon crashes
as Summer tells him that she's don't want things to get serious and to keep it casual.
Despite this their relationship still develops and slowly but surely Summer
lets Tom into her hidden away mysterious life that no one has ever had the
privilege to see and hear about before. However their heart warming cute
relationship that everyone in the audience would want suddenly takes a u-turn
and the two break up. The rest of the film consists of how Tom copes without
Summer however she does return later in the film but is it for the good of
Tom?
The film in a unique way shows how something can change so
quickly and the harsh reality of relationships and love, something that other
romantic films cover up and stray away from. There are two scenes that will
stick in your head after watching, the "Ikea scene" is heart warming
and is a real "awww" moment within in the audience. The second is the
"expectation vs reality scene" that is truly unique but represents
real life as its something everyone can relate to as we tend to make up scenes
in our heads of how we hope events turn out. The film not only provides us with
the generic expectations of a romance film but those of a comedy too, helped by
Tom's friends (Geoffrey Arend, Matthew Gray Gubler)there are many scenes that will make you
laugh for a number of different reasons.
Not only does 500 Days of Summer have a great storyline and
plot but it is also accompanied by great acting and a even better soundtrack.
The soundtrack is modern and refreshing, featuring songs such as Sweet
Disposition (The Temper Trap) and She's got you high (Mumm Ra) it complements
the feel and style of the film, completing it. This is definitely one of the
best romantic comedies that has been released for a while and one to
watch.
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