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Fantastic feel good movie one of the best romcoms around. A definite must watch for everyone

10/10 this movie is really romantic!i love it

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-What happens if you fall in love?
-Well, you don't believe in that, do you?
-It's love. It's not Santa Claus...

It's a GREAT movie, wonderful actors!!

This movie is just great. Still gets me going that it wasn't supposed to be with Tom and Summer but hey it worked out in the end for both of them! 10/10!

great movie !

Excellent chemistry, Unpredictable love story which is rare, and amazing cinematography only using the color blue in scenes with Zooey. Also very witty and very real to relationships. Editing was fabulous also. Very impressed with this movie, Best movie of Sundance 2009 by far!

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Back from Sundance and I am very excited about several of the films. 500 Days of Summer is one of them. It takes a well worn theme of trying to find love and injects it with fresh perspectives and winning performances.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt shines as a young man who falls head over heels for Summer, played radiantly by Zooey Deschanel. He's sure about her, but she wants to take things slowly without labeling their relationship.

This feels like a modern day Annie Hall with it's in-depth dialogue and slightly askew view of modern romance. It could easily go on to be among the best films of the year.

(500) Days of Summer

If you take the title literally, 500 days of summer actually rounds up to roughly a year and half of constant sunny days, consistently tan skin and alas, no school. I suppose we would have to account for Georgia weather throwing us some blistering hot days, followed with peeling skin and for the unlucky many, the everlasting job hunt. For me personally, the summer is keen with my guilty pleasures but just because I like The Devil Wears Prada and Ashley Simpson now, their time is only granted a couple months for a reason.
With (500) Days of Summer, we are presented in a similar situation, only instead of teenie pop music and B-Movies galore, we have Summer, a young women who believes in love as much as the belief that there is a Santa Clause.
The film starts with a typed prequel that states everything found in the movie is completely fiction. After some snooping around on my part, I found out that director Marc Webb had in fact based Summer off of a girl he used to know. Although this may sound trivial now, the film relies heavily on love as it's main foundation and knowing that everything I was seeing had in one way or another happened to the director made this film that much more real to me.
The movie follows the disheartening premise of a lover and his quest to obtain the unobtainable, someone who doesn't believe in true love.
Tom, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Brick, Mysterious Skin) falls head over heals for his new co-worker Summer, played by Zooey Deschanel (The Go-Getter, Elf.)
The story is seldom interrupted by a Morgan Freeman sound-alike who narrates the two as they flashforward and flashback on random intervals of different days they spend together. For example, the film would jump from day (205) to day (17) to day (399).
Although this might be extremely confusing in any other movie, there couldn't have been a better way to film this. As we see Tom first growing found of our vixen Summer, the film would jump ahead a few hundred days towards the middle of the budding relationship to show him in absolute misery.
There was this constant juxtaposition throughout the movie that made it truly saddening and realistically humorous at the same time. Usually the concept of love in a film like this would come off as clich

SCREENED AT THE 52ND SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL:
(500) Days of Summer

Directed by Marc Webb

Written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber

Tagline: Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn't.

Plot: An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman (Deschanel) who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man (Gordon-Levitt) who falls for her.

Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
Summer (Zooey Deschanel)
McKenzie (Geoffrey Arend)
Summer - Age 12 (Olivia Howard Bagg)
Millie (Patricia Belcher)
Marcus (Chris Connell)
Tom - Age 12 (Adam Emery)
Co-worker Rhoda (Maile Flanagan)
Coffee House Waitress (Jenn Gotzon)
Unknown (Clark Gregg)
Paul (Matthew Gray Gubler)
Sarah (Jennifer Hetrick)
Film Noir Actor (Alexei Lantsoff)
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (Michelle Mason)
Rachel (Chloe Moretz)
The Puma (Jason Robinson)
Beer Vender (George Romero)
Tom - Age 8 (Brandon Waters)
Grossman (Sid Wilner)

For better or for worse (often for worse), Zooey Deschanel has become the "Queen of Quirk." Deschanel has essentially played the same character in the recent Gigantic with Paul Dano, last year's Yes Man with Jim Carrey, and Failure to Launch with Justin Bartha.

Webb claims he waned to make a "pop" movie, accessible, but authentic, "indie" in budget and, therefore, name only. In that, he's succeeded.

(500) Days of Summer is this year's Little Miss Juno, an independently financed, refreshingly idiosyncratic, honestly insightful comedy-drama by first-time filmmakers, made with an A-list cast (if not A-list salaries).

In refusing to define her relationship with Tom, Summer paradoxically defines it, subject to her whims, not Tom's. In defining their relationship (with Tom's grudging acceptance), Summer always has control, always has power (over Tom). It's this dynamic that proves an insurmountable obstacle for Tom, who clearly wants a committed relationship. He thinks she's the "one." She doesn't think he's the "one." She claims she's not ready for more, but that only hides her doubts about Tom.

Neustadter and Weber's displays a keen attention to the nuances of romantic relationships, from the first connection (e.g., shared tastes), to the first blush of success (e.g., emotional and sexual intimacy) to the splintering heartbreak that follows the dissolution or near-dissolution of a relationship and to the gradual acceptance of reality, not as we want it to be, but as it is.

Tom is nothing if not a hopeful (as opposed to hopeless) romantic. It makes his narrative and character arc all the more affecting, all the more affecting, all the more authentic.

If, at least superficially, the roles in (500) Days of Summer seem reversed, then it's only because romantic comedy conventions reflect outdated ideas about men and women. Men feel loss too. Some express it, some repress it, but the emotions are there and they can be devastating.

Alain De Botton's The Architecture of Happiness, a book Summer catches Tom reading late in their story chronologically, will probably see an uptick in hits on Amazon.com (if not sales).