(500) Days of Summer

Film Review: (500) Days of Summer
Director: Marc Webb
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend, Matthew Gray Gubler.
Release Date: 2009

About

The protagonist of the film is Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who falls in love with a girl (Zooey Deschanel). Unfortunately for him, she does not believe in love…
He is a guy who still believe, even in this cynical modern world, the notion of transforming love, predestined by the cosmos and that strikes like lightning only once. Summer, the girl doesn’t think so. For nothing. But that does not prevent Tom stop pursuing it again and again, like a modern Don Quixote, with all its power and value. Suddenly, Tom falls in love not only the lovely, smart and intelligent woman, not that he cares anything about that, but the idea of Summer, the very idea of a love that still has the power to shake the heart and stop the world

My opinion

This film is made for people who like me, enjoy romantic comedies when they feel are real, not when they seem to be made with the common formula of: the boy meets girl, initially not supported but the same bind, complications arise but in the end everyone lives happily ever after.
We can compare with Annie Hall but in a modern version, a classic Woody Allen, as more than a romantic story, a story about love, with all its vicissitudes as it explains the relationship between a boy and a girl for 500 days no linear continuity, which I find interesting.
The first thing to note is the protagonist, Zooey Deschanel. The director Marc Webb feels the same way that many feel and he knows that if some feature is defined Zooey should have the most expressive eyes of Hollywood, and Webb approaches gives us enough to make us impossible not to fall for that look that since I first saw in “Almost Famous”, I liked. Joseph Gordon-Levitt has the task of playing the role of Tom, the hopeless romantic and lover of music of the Smiths who until his little sister called bizarre and since the first time that falls victim to the beauty of Summer. Many will seem exaggerated but the reactions of Tom… Who of us has not desired to go dancing in the street after our first encounter with “the perfect person”?

Although the story is not told in linear fashion, the transitions are easy to make us see the day in the relationship that we will see. The dialogue is smart and real, with a narrator who may not be as reliable, but we must bear in mind that apart from a scene in which reality is brought from one side to the world of Tom, the film is told from the point of view of this, so generally we will see things as he sees it, for better or for worse.

In summary it is a sweet film, funny and sad for those who once might have lived 500 days , maybe more or maybe less, a similar experience.

Rating: 7/10

Quote:

Summer: I named my cat after Springsteen.
Tom: Cool… what was his name?
Summer: Bruce.