500 Days of Summer

July 30th, 2010 in Articles by Brad0 Comments

An ominous sounding voice over tells you right from the very beginning of this movie, “This is not a love story, It is a story about love.” I couldn’t have said it any better myself. This is not your typical sappy movie about a boy and a girl falling in love, then suffering some sort of turmoil, then one goes on a mission to get the other back and they end up living happily. No this movie is much more realistic, boy and girl meet, boy likes girl, eventually they date, girl leaves, boy spins out of control, girl wants to be friends, boy wants to get back together, they don’t live happily ever after together. If you have ever been in an adult relationship and or have ever experienced unrequited love, this movie will strike a cord. This is a very well written movie and the casting was spot on. If you are a fan of Zooey Deschanel, like I am, you will appreciate the very different role she takes on in this movie, a somewhat quirky woman who is confident but not really looking for the relationship the she suddenly finds herself in. This is a far cry from her happy go lucky character in “Yes Man,” or her pessimistic character in “Failure to Launch.” In the end this movie does have an uplifting message, even though love may fail, life is not over and to continue on because it will find you again much in the ways it has found you before, unexpectedly and totally off guard.

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