500 Days of Summer (2009) Movie || Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel || Review and Facts
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has played which role that’s why I request you friends to watch this video till the end so let’s start the video 500 Days of Summer is a 2009 American romantic comedy film directed by Mark Web written by Scott new stter and Michael H Weber and produced by Mark Wat ERS the film stars Joseph Gordon levit and zoie Deschanel and employs a nonlinear narrative structure with the story based upon its male protagonist and his memories of a failed relationship as an independent production the film was picked up for distribution by Fox Search light Pictures and premiered at the 25th Sundance Film Festival it received positive critical reviews and became a successful sleeper hit earning over1 60 million in world wide returns far exceeding its 175 million budget many critics lauded the film as one of the best from 2009 and Drew comparisons to other acclaimed films such as Annie Hall 1977 and High Fidelity 2000 the movie is considered as a cult classic the film received best original screenplay and best screenplay awards at the 14th satellite Awards and 25th independent Spirit Awards respectively as well as two nom n minations at the 67th Golden Globe awards best Motion Picture musical or comedy and best actor musical or comedy Gordon levit movie plot the film is presented in a nonlinear narrative jumping between various days within the 500 Days of Tom and Summer’s relationship there is an on-screen timer showing the day the following is a linear summary of the plot Tom Hansen is an aspiring architect who works as a writer at a a greeting card company he meets summer Finn a new employee they discover that they have a similar taste in music later at a karaoke night for their work they talk about love Tom believes in it but summer does not Tom’s friend and cooworker McKenzie drunkenly reveals that Tom likes summer which he asserts is only as friends something summer agrees with a few days later summer spontaneously kisses Tom in the office summer is not looking for a serious relationship Tom agrees to a casual relationship that night they have sex Tom is elated over the first several months of their relationship they grow closer both Tom’s friends and his patine half sister Rachel push him to ask Summer where they are in their relationship though summer brushes this off saying that it should not matter if they are both happy one night Tom gets into a fight with a man who tries to pick summer up in a bar causing their first argument they make up and summer concedes Tom deserves some certainty but demanding she promised to always feel the same way about him would be impossible for anyone to make slowly their relationship becomes less passionate and they begin to continuously argue summer quits the greeting card company and breaks up with Tom citing their obvious unhappiness Tom’s boss moves him to the consolations Department as his depression is making him unsuitable for happier events Tom goes on a blind date with a woman named Allison Tom spends the date talking about summer until Allison leaves exasperated months later Tom attends cooworker Millie’s wedding and tries to avoid summer on the train but she spots him and invites him for coffee they have a good time at the wedding dance together and summer catches the bouquet she invites Tom to a party at her apartment falling asleep on his shoulder on the right back he attends the party hoping to rekindle their relationship but barely interacts with Summer spending most of the night drinking alone until he spots her engagement ring tom leaves devastated further depressed he only leaves his apartment for alcohol and junk food after a few days he returns to work hung over and after an emotional Outburst quits Rachel tells Tom that she does not believe summer was the one and that he is only remembering happy memories of the relationship Tom thinks harder finally seeing moments of incompatibilities he overlooked and warning signs he missed on the day of the breakup one day Tom finds the energy to get out of bed and rededicates himself to architecture as summer had encouraged him to do he assembles a portfolio and secures job interviews summer visits Tom at his favorite spot in the city he tells her he left the office and and notes that she got married which he cannot comprehend as she never wanted to be someone’s girlfriend sumers says she got married because she felt sure which she did not with Tom when he says he was wrong about true love existing she counters that he was right about it just wrong about it being with her she tells him she is glad he is doing well Tom wishes her happiness on Wednesday May 23 Tom meets a woman applying for the same job he finds she shares his favorite spot and invites her for coffee afterwards she politely declines then changes her mind her name is Autumn cast Joseph Gordon lebit as Tom Hansen a trained architect who works as a writer at a greeting card company zooie dis Chanel as summer Finn assistant to Tom’s boss Olivia bag as young summer Jeffrey Aaron as McKenzie Tom’s friend and co-worker at the greeting card company clay Grace mortz as Rachel Hansen Tom’s younger half sister Matthew Gray Gubler as Paul one of Tom’s friends Clark Greg as Vance Tom’s boss key Williams as Tommy Abraham Patricia Belcher as Millie Rachel Boston as Allison Tom’s blind date Minka Kelly as Autumn M Flanagan as Roa IET Nicole Brown as Vance’s new secretary Richard mcgonagle as narrator writing the film is presented as a nonlinear narrative each scene is introduced using a title card showing which of the 500 days it is co-writer of the film Scott new stadter admitted the film was based on a real romance new Stater explains that when he met the real girl who inspired the character summer as a student at the London School of economics in 22 he was rebounding from a bad breakup back home and promptly fell crazily madly hopelessly in love with the girl who returned his kisses but not his artor the ending of the relationship was painfully and unforgettably awful which prompted him to co-write the film with Michael H Weber when newater later showed the script to Summer’s real life counterpart she said she related more to the Tom character Weber also stated that we’ve all been in the trenches of Love we’ve all gone through the highs and lows so Scott and I felt that the only way to tell this story was to come at it from a completely real place it was pretty interesting for us because Scott was just going through a breakup and I was in a long-term relationship so we each brought a totally opposite perspective living it and not living it and I think that tension helped to bring out more of the comedy Direction director Mark Webb has described the film as more of a Coming of Age story as opposed to a ROM calm he stated we arrive at a different conclusion for one thing plus most romantic comedies are more loyal to a formula than to emotional truth it’s about happiness and learning that you’ll find it within yourself rather than in the big blue eyes of the girl in the cubicle down the hall I wanted to make an unsentimental movie and an uncynical movie in my mind I wanted it to be something you could dance to that’s why we put a parenthesis in the title it’s like a pop song in movie form it’s not a big film it’s not about war or poverty it’s about 500 Days in a young guy’s relationship but it’s no less deserving of scrutiny when your heart is first broken it consumes you and it’s an emotion I wanted to make a movie about before I forgot how it felt web also stated that dis Channel’s character summer is based on a stock character type yes summer is an immature view of of a woman she’s Tom’s view of a woman he doesn’t see her complexity and the consequence for him is heartbreak in Tom’s eyes summer is perfection but Perfection has no depth summer is not a girl she’s a phase Gordon levit explained that he was drawn to the role of Tom because of his relatability to the character I’ve had my heart broken before truly truly broken but when I look back at me in my heartbroken phase it’s pretty hilarious ious because it felt so much more extreme than it really was one of the things I love about 500 Days of Summer is that it doesn’t make light of what we go through in romances but it is honest about it and shows it for what it is which is often profoundly funny filming locations David NG of the Los Angeles Times describes architecture as a star of the film Tom is seen reading Elaine de boton’s the architecture of Happiness the film was originally set in San Francisco but was later moved to Los Angeles and the script Rewritten to make better use of the location buildings used include the Los Angeles Music Center which includes the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the towers of California Plaza the older Fine Arts building is featured in the film in a scene where Tom shows it to Summer and mentions its designers Walker and Eisen two of his favorite Architects Christopher hawor of the Los Angeles Times describes the film as having finely honed sense of taste to include the Bradberry building where Tom goes for his job interview Tom’s favorite spot in Los Angeles was shot at Angel’s null which became a popular tourist attraction after the film’s release since July 2013 it has been closed off to the public due to State cutbacks in his article about cinematic cartography Dr Chris Lucen beel suggests that the location of angels null mirrors Tom’s view of the world he argues that Tom only perceives the beauty of the buildings surrounding them and only acknowledges the parking lot when summer points it out to him he states that Tom is also unable to see beyond his expectations of hopeless romance costume design costume designer hope Hanahan has revealed through interviews that Mark Webb insisted on the color blue being worn exclusively by summer he based his de ision on zooie dis Chanel’s eye color but as hanifen disclosed it works on a subconscious level as well attracting attention at all times the only scene to break this rule is the Hall and Oats dance sequence where many of the extras appear in blue the point of that was to show that in his morning after glow Tom’s whole world is a reflection of Summer the costumes are a mixture of vintage and fast fashion with the emphasis on staying realistic to what the characters could Ford Summer’s wardrobe is refreshing and stylish without anything tying it to the years around the film’s release which gives the Aesthetics a Timeless quality soundtrack Two soundtrack albums were released for 500 Days of Summer the first consisting of various pop songs from the film was released through sire records and reached no 42 on the billboard 200 Sales chart Andrew lehy of all music rated the album three and a half star out of five saying with music playing such an integral role in the story line it’s refreshing to see that the accompanying soundtrack does its job well distilling the character’s record collections not to mention the movies quirky nostalgic Ambience into one eclectic track list the second album consists of the film’s musical score composed By mikale Dana and Rob Simonson marketing to help promote the film Gordon levit and dis Chanel starred in the debut episode of Microsoft zoon and mean Magazine’s cinemash Series in the episode they mash the characters from the film Sid and Nancy with story elements from 500 Days of Summer Mark Webb created a music video as a companion piece to the film titled the bank heist it features djanel and Gordon levit dancing to why do you let me stay here a song by dis Chanel’s folk group She and Him web remarked when when we didn’t include zoie in the dance sequence in 500 days she was a little heartbroken and I felt like I needed to remedy that release the film made its debut at the 25th Sundance Film Festival it proved a huge success and received a standing ovation from Festival crowds upon screening in Europe 500 Days of Summer premiered in Switzerland as the opening film of the 62nd locarno Film Festival filmed independently it was picked up for distribution by Fox Search light Pictures and opened in the United States and Canada on July 17 to then and9 later expanding to wide release on August 7 2009 it was later also released on September 2 2009 in Ireland and the United Kingdom and opened in Australia on September 17th 2009 box office upon the film’s initial limited release in the US it was expected to become the breakout Indie hit of the summer by September 8th the film had taken in $119 million from 318 screens in the United Kingdom this was regarded as a successful 5-day opening by Fox Search light earning around half as much as the science fiction Blockbuster District 9 which took in1 35 million the film ended up grossing $1 324 million in the United States and Canada And1 67 million worldwide critical response on Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 85% based on 234 reviews with an average rating of 7610 the site’s critical consensus reads a clever offbeat romantic comedy 500 Days of Summer is refreshingly honest and utterly Charming at the website’s yearend golden tomato Awards which honored the best reviewed films of 2009 the film placed second in in the Romantic category on Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 76 out of 100 based on 36 critics indicating generally favorable reviews Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gave the film four stars out of four describing the film as a delightful comedy alive with invention he particularly praised the strong performances of Gordon levit and dis Chanel and summarized his review by adding here is a rare movie that begins by telling us how it will end and is about how the hero has no idea why Premiere also awarded the film four stars out of four stating much like the actual summer the season not the character we never wanted it to end Michael ordonia of the Los Angeles Times gave a positive review he wrote 500 Days of Summer is something seldom seen an original romantic comedy it bristles with energy emotion and intellect as it flits about the dizzying highs and weeping karaoke lows of a passionate entanglement Dana Stevens of slate also praised the film and described it as a keeper it’s fun both to watch and to talk about afterward and it possesses The elusive ram C sign quanan two equally appealing leads who bounce wonderfully off each other Entertainment Weekly critic Owen gaberman gave the film an A and also praised the originality of the story most romantic comedies have half a dozen situations at best meet cute infatuation pop song Montage contrived mixup angry breakup and final clinch 500 Days of Summer is about the many unclassifiable moments in between it’s a feat of star acting and it helps make 500 Days not just bitter or sweet but everything in between film threat critic Scott KN gave the film a maximum five star r and called The Script fantastic he also lauded the film’s Innovative nature of course they meet of course they fall for each other of course there are problems it sounds cliche but what’s remarkable about 500 Days is how the film explores new ways to tell the world’s oldest story he concluded that the film was the best romantic comedy since Love Actually Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film three and a half stars out of for he wrote Boy Meets Girl boy loses girl it’s been done to a o death that’s why the sublimely smart sexy joyful sad 500 Days of Summer hits you like a blast of pure romantic oxygen and concludes 500 Days is otherwise a different kind of love story an honest one that takes a piece out of you USA today’s Claudia peig wrote much like Annie Hall did for a previous generation 500 Days of Summer Maybe the movie that best captures a contemporary romantic sensibility in critic Eric Goldman gave the film 9 out of 10 and praised the film as one of the best of Tui and nine and particularly complimented the Innovative nature of the story in an often cliche genre 500 Days of Summer proved there is a way to bring something fresh and new to one of the most cliche and often frustrating genres the romantic comedy AO Scott of the New York Times gave the film four out of five and called it slight charming and refreshingly candid little picture Scott Tobias of the a club graded the film B but criticized it for its dispiriting cliches which make it wind up in a no man’s land between Hollywood and something real NPR was more dismissive for all its rhetorical Whimsy and hipster dressings 500 Days of Summer is a thoroughly conservative Affair as culturally and romantically status quo as any Jennifer Aniston vehicle Joe Morin of the Wall Street Journal was also more critical calling it synthetic and derivative a movie that’s popping with perceptions while searching for a style British newspaper the times gave a mixed review despite Toby Young awarding the film three stars out of five he critiqued it is hardly the freshest romantic comedy of past 20 years taking the best bits from other movies and rearranging them in a nonlinear sequence does not make for an original film The Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw said the film was let down by sitcom cliche and by being weirdly in curious about the inner life of its female lead Mark Adams of the Daily Mirror though gave the film a glowing review awarding it a full five stars and writing it is a modern romance for grown-ups a sweet-natured funny deeply romantic tale that brims with energy and is blessed with top-notch performances by Deschanel and Gordon levit who are both charming and have real chemistry Empire gave the film four out of five stars and wrote perfectly played simultaneously serious and light endlessly inventive this is a strong Contender for the most original date movie of the year cultural impact in the entertainment Weekly’s interview of the 10th anniversary of the film’s release the lead actors Joseph Gordon it and zooie dis chainel addressed its cultural impact and the viewers frequent misconception of their characters such as thinking summer is a villain even though the film is told from Tom’s point of view summer is completely honest the entire movie Gordon levit repeatedly warned against sympathizing with his character Tom Who develops a mildly delusional obsession over a girl onto whom he projects all these fantasies That’s Falling in Love with the idea of a person not the actual person accolades Scott new stter and Michael H Weber received numerous awards for their screenplay including the 29 Hollywood film festival’s Hollywood breakthrough screenwriter award on October 26 2009 the satellite Award for best original screenplay the Southeastern film critics Association Award for best original screenplay with the film also being named in the top 10 films of the year as well as the L Vegas film critics Society Award for best screenplay Alan Edward Bell won the San Diego film critics Society Award for best editing as well as the film being named one of the 10 best movies of the Year by the national board of review Awards 2009 the film also received two nominations at the 67th Golden Globe awards announced on December 15 2009 for best Motion Picture musical or comedy and for Joseph Gordon lit for best actor musical or comedy it has been nominated for four independent Spirit Awards and won the award for best screenplay 500 Days of Summer movie review we never remember in chronological order especially when we’re going back over a failed romance we start near the end and then hop around between the times that were good and the times that left pain people always say start at the beginning but we didn’t know at the time it was the beginning 500 Days of Summer is a movie that works that way some say they’re annoyed by the way it begins on day 488 or whatever and then jumps around providing utterly unhelpful data labels day 1 day 249 movies are supposed to reassure us that events unfold in an orderly procession but Tom remembers his love summer as a series of Joys and bafflement what kind of woman likes you perfectly sincerely and has no one else in her life but is not interested in ever getting married zoie dis channel is a good choice to play such a woman I can’t imagine her playing a clinging Vine two warnery as Summer she sees Tom with a level gaze and is who she is it’s Tom’s bad luck she is sweet and smart and beautiful it’s not an act she is always scrupulously honest with him she is her own person and Tom can’t have her have you known own someone like that in Romance we believe what we want to believe that’s the reason 500 Days of Summer is so appealing Tom is in love with Summer from the moment he sees her his thoughts on love may not run as deeply as say those of the Romantic Poets he writes greeting cards and you suspect he may believe his own cards it’s amazing people get paid for a job like that I could do it love is a rose and you are its pedals summer is his boss’s new assistant she likes his looks and makes her move one day over the Xerox machine can he accept that she simply likes him for now not for forever the movie which is a delightful comedy alive with invention is about Tom wrestling with that reality the director Mark web seems to be casting about for templates from other movies to help him tell this story that’s not desperation but playfulness there’s a little black and white a little musical number a little felini which is always helpful in evoking a man in the act of Yearning Tom spends this movie in the emotional quander of Mastro in La doce Vita his hand always outstretched toward his inaccessible fantasies summer remains mysterious all through the film perhaps because we persist with Tom in expecting her to cave in when we realize she is not required to in this movie because it’s not playing by the Hollywood rules we perk up Anything Could Happen the kaleidoscopic time structure breaks the shackles of the three act grid and thrashes about with the freedom of romantic confusion one thing men love is to instruct women if a woman wants to enchant a man she is wise to play his pupil men fall for this Tom set out in life to be an architect not a poet of greeting cards he and summer share the same favorite view of Los Angeles one you may not have seen before before and he conducts for her an architectural tour this is fun not because we get to see wonderful buildings but because so rarely in the movies do we find characters arguing for their aesthetic values what does your average character played by an alist star believe about truth and Beauty has Jason Bourne ever gone to a museum on his day off Joseph Gordon levit has acted in a lot of movies ranging from one of the Halloween sequels to the Indie gem brick he comes into Focus here playing a believable likable guy hopeful easily disappointed a little Tom hanian he is strong enough to expect love weak enough to be hurt zooie dis Chanel evokes that ability in some women to Madden you with admiration while never seeming to give it the slightest thought she also had that quality in the overlooked gigantic 2008 although the movie’s peculiar supporting characters obscured it Tom opens the film by by announcing it will not be your typical Love Story are you like me and when you realize a movie is on autopilot you get impatient with it how long can the characters pretend they don’t know how the story will end here is a rare movie that begins by telling us how it will end and is about how the hero has no idea why as the narrator of 500 Days of Summer tells us in its opening this is not a love story that may be but it’s certainly one that’s in in love with its own storytelling the biggest frustration is that while that storytelling is phenomenal the story its telling is thin unemotional and isn’t worthy of Mark web’s brilliant Direction told out of sequence 500 Days of Summer follows the emotional Arc of Tom Joseph Gordon levit an aspiring architect who works at a greeting card company and falls in love with the boss new assistant summer zooie dis Chanel Tom’s problem is that calling him a hopeless romantic would be an understatement he watches The Graduate and thinks that it’s a happy ending which in my view may be some form of sociopathy but he falls head over heels for summer and we see their relationship as it bounces back and forth from the highs of puppy love to Su are pulling away from Tom and the mix of Anguish and regret he feels over their breakup we see the story as it bounces around to various days and we see it through nice touches like references to classic foreign films and even a big dance number set to Hall and Oats You Make My Dreams Come True thrown in after Tom seals the deal as it were as a feature directorial debut you couldn’t have a better coming out than Mark web does here while writers Scott newater and Michael Weber did lay out the chronology jumps and other eye-catching moments web makes them work and knows how to set the right mood and shot to fit Tim’s mood there’s also a scene that does a split screen of Tom’s expectations versus reality that will go down as one of the best Cinema moments of 2 A9 sadly for all the effort that was put into telling the story in fresh and innovative ways the story itself is still flat and uninteresting romantic comedy Staples like the wise sibling the painfully precocious younger sister dishing out romantic advice is agonizingly tweet and the Kookie best friends are present while putting the entire story at Tom’s perspective leaves summer feeling anemic and while I’m no fan of dis Chanel’s acting abilities there’s absolutely nothing to work with for her summer doesn’t have any friends or personal Ambitions and while Tom may just be in love with the idea of being in love it still has to be with a real person or else the emotional reality feels Hollow Gordon levit has more to work with and he does a fine job but it’s a fruitless Endeavor when the love of a love story is approached so cold old and clinically while every effort is expended to the story I’ve heard that other audiences especially the ones at Sundance found 500 Days of Summer to be a delight and a romance in the vein of Annie Hall I couldn’t find the emotional truth buried beneath the Stellar Direction so while the story left me cold I have great hopes for web and his future endeavors other information about this film boy gets girl and boy loses girl in convoluted sometimes clawing But ultimately winning fashion in 500 Days of Summer stylish feature debut by longtime music video director Mark Webb goes out of its way to take an unconventional approach to telling one of the oldest stories in the book only to Prevail by embracing the fact that the fundamental things apply a cute leading couple a rooting interest in their welfare and a genuine feeling for heartbreak and the belief that life must go on set for July 24 Rel lease this looks like a real commercial winner with young audiences in an era when a house style is fundamentally antithetical to the nature of the film business Fox Search light could now be said to be developing something akin to such a style or at least a keen feel for the tastes of its bright and Youthful Niche audience it’s hard to watch summer without at times thinking of Slum Dog Millionaire and Juno for the time jumping structure and lustrous visual style of the former the strong identification with young lovers of the latter and the musical distinctiveness of both it’s spoiling nothing to reveal that the central romance doesn’t work out as the structure of Scott Nader and Michael H Weber’s script spins on offering moments from the entire relationship in un chronological bits and pieces with the aim of creating an emotional Mosaic impact of the same piece presented in normal order would probably be nearly identical but while the temporal jigsaw puzzle will strike some as an attention getting mannerism the device will likely serve its purpose in making a sentiment-based story seem distinctive and unusual enough to be cool to its intended audience at its heart this is a story of the devastation of romantic rejection the spirit crushing defeat of being dumped by the person you believed was the love of your life told from the male point of view a firm comic perspective is established from the outset as is the non linear structure the title conveys the number of days that elapse from when Tom Joseph Gordon levit first lays eyes on summer zooi dis Chanel to when they say their final goodbye pick opens on day 488 and numbers keep popping up on screen to indicate the time of the action Tom a good-looking guy on the shy side studied to be an architect but now works in downtown Los Angeles writing greeting cards at an office that looks impossibly hip and fashionably appointed for the inan products the company produces as soon as his boss hires the lovely summer as his new assistant Tom’s a goner while they mildly Bond over Mutual musical tastes it takes a drunken office karaoke party to light their fires even then Tom is too reserved to make the first move which she eventually does in the office copy room web ad dryly captures the moods of Love’s different stages and celebrates Tom’s finally scoring with Summer in a boisterous bring the House Down musical production number in a Central LA park a certain imbalance permeates the relationship even at its peak since Tom believes in Destiny with one true love while summer just wants someone fun and regards a more as a fantasy still things go well for a while until for no apparent reason summer turns cooler the leads provide everything a romantic comedy needs in terms of flare and likability Kier and less cookie cutter than the young pretty boys normally seen in such Fair Gordon levit expressively alternates between enthusiasm and forlorn disappointment in the manner Jack Lemon could and it makes you really root for the guy after some years as a favorite enthusiasm of Indie Fanboys dis Chanel seems to be truly coming into her own now and she enchantingly conveys Summer’s Allure elusiveness and Quicksilver nature the film Falls far short however in the comic release supporting roles an area in which the genre usually affords riches Tom’s manic workmate McKenzie Jeffrey arand and longtime best friend Paul Matthew Grey Gubler are supposed to provide sounding boards and morale boosts but they are both deeply unfunny Subs sitcom caricatures who throw the film tonally off Bas whenever they’re around Tom’s smarty pants unnaturally mature teenage sister exemplifies the film’s unappealing strain of overweening cleverness shot by Eric steelberg Juno 500 Days is very sharp visually and Exhibits loads of energy without hyperventilating Tom’s enduring architectural interests are wonderfully exploited through the underutilized downtown locations Los Angeles Plaza plays a key role and at one point Tom gives summer an experts tour of choice old buildings the color coordination of the locations Laura Fox’s outstanding production design and hul hanahan’s costumes in enrich the film’s lustrous look the pick overflows with music a bit obtrusively at times but excerpts are smartly chosen positive elements 500 Days of Summer wrestles albeit playfully with the question of what it means to be in a real committed relationship as infatuation seizes Tom and as summer begins to reciprocate it seems he’s initially content to concede to Summer’s desire not to label what’s happening between them eventually though Tom wants to know if their relationship really means anything to her even though she’s warned him against wanting more or longing for lasting commitment that’s exactly where Tom’s heart goes arguably illustrating the fact that love is serious business and that our hearts aren’t really designed for casual or recreational affection or sex for that matter a subject will deal with a bit more as this review moves along as Tom rides the roller coaster of life with Summer what well-meaning friends try their best to counsel him through the ups and inevitable Downs among these people is his little sister Chloe who’s perhaps 11 or 12 A co-worker named McKenzie and Tom’s lifelong best friend Paul their Council isn’t always precisely helpful but they should still be credited for doing their best to try to help Tom navigate the mysteries of why things work or don’t when it comes to romance one healthy observation Paul makes Len’s perspective to The Divide between fantasy and reality he says of his significant other Robin’s better than the girl of my dreams she’s real summer encourages Tom to pursue his architecture dreams again even though Tom has mostly given them up he eventually does just that throwing himself into his desire to become an architect in an attempt to channel his disappointment about how things go with Summer in a meltdown at work provoked by his deteriorating connection with Summer Tom rightly identifies movies music and greeting cards as significant cultural influences that shape our expectations about romance in a Twist near the end summer suddenly marries someone else Tom is devastated but a poignant closure conversation between them involves summer Telling Tom that he was the one who helped her to believe that love was actually possible his Earnest open and hopeful Nature has ultimately influenced summer even if she was wasn’t able to love him the way he loved her spiritual elements the intrinsically spiritual subjects of fate and destiny are at the center of the film’s exploration of modern romance Tom’s boss mentions the fact that Tom has suffered a loss of Faith song lyrics include the phrase original sin Tom briefly interacts with a group of greeting card writers who work in the religious and sympathy Division and there’s a joking reference to Jesus mother Mary someone is said to have Jesus ABS sexual content Tom and Summer’s growing friendship quickly leads to sexual involvement before their first such encounter summer tells Tom I’m not really looking for anything serious is that okay Tom assures her that it is then goes in the bathroom to try to convince himself of the same thing talking to himself in the mirror when he comes out we see summer sprawled on the bed and Glimpse the back side of one bare shoulder a camera shot that pays homage to a similar image in The Graduate a film that Tom mentions several times as one of the most influential films of his adolescence Tom and summer visit the adults only section of a video store rent a pornographic film and then try to imitate one of the scenes in the shower we don’t see anything explicit in the film or between Tom and summer we glimpse a hand or two above the shower curtain before they pull it down and the camera Cuts away during a fight regarding whether they’re a couple or not Tom derisively says that they’re just shower sex friends a bit further on they go to another pornographic movie at a theater at an Ikea store Tom and summer snuggle suggestively on a display bed and begin kissing when they notice that there’s another family with a couple of children watching them at a public park with children around Tom and summer take turns yelling penis ever more loudly card writing co-workers trying to brainstorm new holidays come up with one for lesbian mothers while drunk McKenzie asks summer if she’s got a boyfriend when she says no he asks if she’s a lesbian later we learned that one of her exes was in fact a woman another of Tom’s friends quizzes him using crude sexual descriptions about what Tom and summer have and haven’t done together a woman wears a low cut dress sand bra violent content Tom clocks a man in a bar who’s aggressively hitting on summer and belittling him the man smacks him back and the screen Fades to Black indicating that Tom was knocked out elsewhere Tom processes his emotional Pain by picking up three or four dinner plates and robotically smashing them on the countertop reference is made to Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols stabbing his girlfriend later Tom draws a sketch of a large bloody knife stabbing summer in a scene that’s played for humor crude or profane language one FW and about 15 words characters take Jesus name in vain twice and gdn is uttered once we hear about a dozen other vulgarities including B CH h and a and there’s one crude reference each to male and female anatomy drug and alcohol content summer Tom and McKenzie go to a bar for karaoke night summer and Tom drink shots and beer and McKenzie gets very very drunk he practically has to be carried to a waiting cab later Tom offhandedly says he’s not intoxicated enough to sing whereupon Summer enthusiastically waves the waiter to their table the next scene pictures a quite inebriated Tom warbling away at the mic in a similar scene Tom gets exceedingly drunk at the same karaoke bar in a failed attempt to drown his Sorrows when he’s breaking the aforementioned plates Tom’s little sister suggests vodka to calm him down we also see Tom with a bottle of whiskey at one of his lowest points other negative elements in his depression following the end of his relationship with Summer Tom spends day after day at home half-eaten Twinkies an aspirin bottle and alcohol containers are strewn haphazardly about his apartment Tom takes a mean-spirited shot at McKenzie’s non-existent love life a story is told about the last time McKenzie went to a bar for karaoke night an outing that concluded with him vomiting and trying to set the place on fire the tweenage Rachel makes a joke about PMS conclusion I made my first profession of love when I was 7 years old sounds crazy I know but I thought it was the real thing her name was Wendy a girl from my elementary school who lived just a few blocks away and so one day I mustered my courage walked to her house rang the bell and promptly confessed I love you her nonchalant response Adam I’ve only been in love twice I don’t think you love me it was my first but not my last heart-rending brush with unrequited affection which brings us in a roundabout way to 500 Days of Summer anyone who has ever traversed the dizzying heights of euphoria infatuation to the abject despondency that settles in after rejection will empathize with Tom Hansen’s plight the film captures the raw wound of rejection as deafly as anything I’ve seen in a long time but it also illustrates our culture’s deep confusion when it comes to love sex intimacy and commitment shortly after Tom tells summer that he likes her she reciprocates and they quickly end up in bed together sex then is simply an assumed step in the process of getting to know each other a process aided for the record by liberal amounts of alcohol in the story in fact Tom and Summer cross this bridge long before summer allows him into the inner sanctum of her apartment and begins to share some things she’s never told anyone in this sense 500 Days of Summer reinforces the damaging idea that sexual intimacy early in a relationship is normal and expected certainly not something we should make too big a deal about if things don’t work out well too bad but at least we had some fun while we were at it this we’re supposed to think is simply the way things are and yet Tom is devastated and rightly so he’s given summer everything emotionally and physically and been left with nothing he Longs for something better something concrete something real a love that is true and that’s something summer is unable to give him even though she readily offers her body as a substitute for a Time the end result is nothing short of a disaster a wedding between two minor characters late in the film subtly underscores what it is that Tom Pines for a permanent commitment until he finds it though we’re left with the feeling that he’ll keep offering his body and soul to each successive person he falls for that’s an approach liable to yield more and more heartache for him and for anyone influenced by by his and Summer’s tragically confused example of what it means to have sex and make romance what you need to know 500 Days of Summer tells the Charming and quirky yet surprisingly realistic story about a boy who meets a girl falls in love and experiences heartbreak and self-discovery when he finds out the girl doesn’t feel the same The Story begins with Tom an idealistic would be architect turned greeting card writer Who falls in love with summer his boss’s beautiful new secretary from the moment they meet Tom is smitten and over the course of their 500 day Relationship Tom experiences the high of being young and in love the Heartbreak of being dumped and the journey of self-discovery 500 Days of Summer has some commendable elements including its high production values and its positive affirmations of marriage The Artsy directing strong performances intelligent dialogue and the creative elements used such as split screens time jumps a song and dance number and illustrations are delightful to watch they all work together to make the plot unfold splendidly well content strong romantic world view where protagonist is emotionally driven and believes he will never truly be happy until he finds the one and his idealistic path to self-discovery and fulfillment of personal dreams is completely devoid of God although one character character serves as the voice of reason to his passion plus new age Pagan element with main character believing in fate or some Cosmic Universal Force controlling Humanity light homosexual material with character who is not always portrayed in the most positive light as a bit of a desperate sleazy bag proposing a new holiday greeting card called other Mother’s Day and same character asks girl if she’s a lesbian because she likes being single and independent and some moral elements with two positive AFF ations of marriage one of these by a character who starts out being against marage serious relationships because of past hurts and ends up getting married 25 obscenities and three profanities character smashes a few plates and character punches man in a bar and gets punched in return strong sexual content includes sexual depiction of two dogs A couple of derogatory words one said by a little girl used in reference to a woman I.E skank passionate kissing three instances of implied fornication character breaks out in a song and dance number to celebrate being young and in love and fornicating with his girlfriend the night before couple enters the adults only section of a video store and rent a porn film to watch some instances of a fully clothed couple laying on bed and talking woman briefly discusses some of her past relationships which include one homosexual relationship and a relationship with a man nicknamed Puma because of the size of his male genitalia two characters see who can yell the word penis the loudest in a park upper male nudity and woman’s upper be back while laying in bed characters drink beer at a bar and with dinner drink shots at a bar and at a wedding drink glasses of wine during a birthday party man’s little sister gives him a shot of vodka three instances where characters are drunk and man buys strong alcohol from a convenience store no smoking or drugs and one reference to Jesus having great abs woman wants keep relationships casual because she says she doesn’t believe in love her world view is a result of the pain she experienced as a young girl when her parents divorced but this is eventually resolved though apart from God and characters and story consistently affirm the new age principle of Fate with protagonist embarking on path of self-discovery within himself and completely devoid of God more detail 500 Days of Summer is a fantastically directed charming and quirky yet so realistic movie about a boy who meets a girl falls in love and experiences heartbreak and self-discovery when he finds out the girl doesn’t feel the same although there are many commendable elements in regards to the production values and the movie’s affirmation of marriage the experience is ultimately marred by a strong romantic worldview foul language alcohol use and sexual material this semi-autobiographical story taken from the writer’s own experiences opens with Tom Hansen an idealistic would be architect turned greeting card writer who believes he will never truly be happy until he finds the one Tom sees the world as being controlled by a cosmic force that some could call fate however summer Finn his boss’s new secretary and the focus of Tom’s deep affection does not believe as he does in fact she doesn’t believe in love at all and calls it a fantasy saying that most marriages end in divorce anyway her views are very much shaped by the hurt she experienced as a young girl during her parents’ divorce she doesn’t want to get hurt in that way or make herself too vulnerable from the moment he meets her Tom’s feelings for summer continuously grow as he discovers the things they have in common I.E they both love the Smiths a rock group but she makes it very clear from the beginning that she is only looking for a casual relationship with no labels attached Tom believing that he has the power to break down her walls thinks little of her assertion and decides to take his chances the movie shifts back and forth over the course of the 500 Days of their relationship from the Blissful moments to the Heartbreak on again and off again to the first few dates followed by no more dates from Tom’s path to self-discovery and the question he must answer is summer really the one for him as Tom struggles to make sense of love and heartbreak he is forced to decide whether he truly believes that the love between two people is cosmically destined the movie’s ending may surprise some viewers but most will be pleasantly surprised as Tom begins a new season of his life so to speak 500 Days of Summer has some very commendable elements in regards to the production values as well as the positive affirmations of marriage The Artsy directing is superb by firsttime movie director Mark Webb a compilation of split screens dream sequences time jumps a song and dance number narrators a cartoon bird illustrations and other creative techniques are used to tell the story it might seem like the movie could be over the toop with this many creative elements added but it actually works splendidly the music is also delightful and the acting worthy of recognition especially for Joseph Gordon levit the dialogue between the two main characters is witty and intelligent reminiscent of true to life experiences finally although the plot may be simple it unfolds well the positive affirmations of marriage arise when Tom and summer attend the wedding of a coworker and also when summer herself who was seemingly against it in the beginning ends up getting married despite these commendable elements 500 Days of Summer contains a fair amount of content requiring caution for viewers one problematic element concerns Tom’s little sister Rachel who is probably about 11 to 13 years old at various times during the movie she serves as his voice of reason and sometimes has good words of wisdom for example she encourages Tom to be more objective and to try examining his relationship with Summer from the perspective that she might not actually be the one for him the problem occurs in a couple of instances where Rachel gives Tom a shot of vodka to help calm him down after his breakup and also where she uses a derogatory word to call him a wimp although these instances are played for Laughs they are unnecessary and out of place 500 Days of Summer is very much dominated by a romantic worldview where the characters are young idealistic and very much Guided by their emotions apart from reason and apart from God while audiences will root for the ease easily relatable character of Tom the enduring meaning that can be taken away from the movie is lacking and somewhat Hollow because it completely leaves God out of the picture although the movie ultimately extols marriage it is only through Jesus Christ that we can truly discover our true identity and purpose as his children as Genesis 1:27 says so God created man in his own image in the image of God he created him male and female he created them also in John 1:12 yet to all who received him to those who believed in his name he gave the right to become children of God and as 1 Peter 2:9 States but you are a chosen people a royal priesthood a holy nation a people belonging to God that you may declare the Praises of him who called you out of Darkness into his wonderful light lastly Ephesians 1:4 says for he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight one of 2009’s best films 500 Days of Summer proved there is a way to bring something fresh and new to one of the most cliche and often frustrating genres the romantic comedy Joseph Gordon levit stars as Tom whose job writing greeting cards gets a lot more exciting when he meets his new cooworker summer zooie dis chainel she’s adorable she’s cool she’s funny and she likes the same music as Tom obviously she’s perfect but we know from the start that this is a doomed relationship it’s right there in the title of course writers Scott newater and Michael H Weber and director Mark Webb tell the story in nonlinear fashion most scenes begin on a completely different day of the relationship moving back and forth Through Time across those 500 days we can go from Tom and Summer’s most joyful moment to a tension filled encounter within the space on screen that that is of a minute and then back to happier times it could be jarring but the filmmakers completely pull it off here a key component is the film’s healthy sense of humor there are certainly genuine heartfelt moments but the film never wallows in misery or over sentimentality or perhaps it’s more correct to say that when there are moments that are overly sentimentalized it’s purposeful and shown in a clever manner we’re seeing how Tom is building up moments in his mind in a way way that doesn’t really connect to reality in the way people do when they’re so deeply and desperately in love romantic comedies are almost all aimed at women and thus are mostly told from a woman’s point of view that being the case it’s surprisingly refreshing to have one told from the point of view of a young male and many male viewers will empathize with Tom and the way it’s so easy to be absolutely sure you’ve met the girl of your dreams even when there are obvious signs that things can and will go sour in the past few years Gordon levit has given excellent performances in films like brick and the lookout 500 Days of Summer allows the actor to show a far more light-hearted side when Tom’s not in his morose moments that is and Gordon levit proves to be very charming and likable in this type of role dis Chanel is very well cast as summer perfectly embodying the type of quirky cool girl guys like Tom go crazy for it’s a bit of a tricky role because as their relationship takes a turn for the worse it’s hard not to feel pretty negative about summer and some of the things she does it’s certainly true that her character is not as fleshed out as Tom but that’s kind of the point since the movie is about how Tom perceives the highs and lows of this relationship my only notable quibble with 500 Days of Summer is the portrayal of Tom’s little sister Rachel Khloe Mort soon to be kicking ass in Kick cast filled with precocious wise Beyond her Year’s advice the character just comes off as false and overly cute in a way the film doesn’t need that’s easy to forgive though because 500 Days of Summer is overall a wonderful film The much talked about big Hall and Oats dance number Toms in head perception of how things are going with summer is easily one of the most fun impossible to resist sequences you could hope to see and while the film is very much character driven web’s music video past serves him well in several visual tangents the story takes showing different facets of TOMS PO on what is occurring it’s easy to dismiss romantic comedies as having nothing new to offer and most of the time that’s true but web new stter and Weber prove there is certainly room to find a different and highly engaging take on this type of material and manag to have a happy ending regardless of whether a specific couple lives happily Ever After together or not 500 Days of Summer is a 2009 American romantic comedy film directed by Mark Web written by Scott new staner and Michael H Weber and produced by Mark Waters the film stars Joseph Gordon levit and zooie Deschanel and employs a nonlinear narrative structure with the story based upon its male protagonist and his memories of a failed relationship as an independent production the film was picked up for distribution by Fox Search light Pictures and premiered at the 25th Sundance Film Festival it received positive critical reviews and became a successful sleeper hit earning over1 60 million in worldwide returns far exceeding its do 75 million budget many critics lauded the film as one of the best from 2009 and Drew comparisons to other acclaimed films such as Annie Hall 1977 and High Fidelity 2000 the movie is considered as a cult classic the film received best original screenplay and best screenplay awards at the 14th satellite Awards and 25th independent Spirit Awards respectively as well as two nominations at the 67th Golden Globe awards best Motion Picture musical or comedy and best actor musical or comedy Gordon levit movie plot the film is presented in a nonlinear narrative jumping between various days Within the 500 Days of Tom and Summer’s relationship there is an onscreen timer showing the day the following is a linear summary of the plot Tom Hansen is an aspiring architect who works as a writer at a greeting card company he meets summer Finn a new employee they discover that they have a similar taste in music later at a karaoke night for their work they talk about love Tom believes in it but summer does not Tom’s friend and Co worker McKenzie drunkenly reveals that Tom likes summer which he asserts is only as friends something summer agrees with a few days later summer spontaneously kisses Tom in the office summer is not looking for a serious relationship Tom agrees to a casual relationship that night they have sex Tom is elated over the first several months of their relationship they grow closer both Tom’s friends and his pre half sister Rachel push him to ask Summer where they are in their relationship though summer brushes this off saying that it should not matter if they are both happy one night Tom gets into a fight with a man who tries to pick summer up in a bar causing their first argument they make up and summer concedes Tom deserves some certainty but demanding she promised to always feel the same way about him would be impossible for anyone to make slowly their relationship becomes less passionate and they begin to continuously argue summer quits the greeting card company and breaks up with Tom citing their obvious unhappiness Tom’s boss moves him to the consolations Department as his depression is making him unsuitable for happier events Tom goes on a blind date with a woman named Allison Tom spends the date talking about summer until Allison leaves exasperated months later Tom attends coworker Millie’s wedding and tries to avoid summer on the train but she spots him and invites him for coffee they have a good time at the wedding dance together and summer catches the bouquet she invites Tom to a party at her apartment falling asleep on his shoulder on the ride back he attends the party hoping to rekindle their relationship but barely interacts with Summer spending most of the night drinking alone until he spots her engagement ring tom leaves devastated further depressed he only leaves his apartment for alcohol and junk food after a few days he returns to work hung over and after an emotional Outburst quits Rachel tells Tom that she does not believe summer was the one and that he is only remembering happy memories of the relationship Tom thinks harder finally seeing moments of incompatibilities he overlooked and warning signs he missed on the day of the breakup one day Tom finds the energy to get out of bed and rededicates himself to architecture as summer had encouraged him to do he assembles a portfolio and secures job interviews summer visits Tom at his favorite spot in the city he tells her he left the office and notes that she got married which he cannot comprehend as she never wanted to be someone’s girlfriend Summers says she got married because she felt sure which she did not with Tom when he says he was wrong about true love existing she counters that he was right about just wrong about it being with her she tells him she is glad he is doing well Tom wishes her happiness on Wednesday May 23 Tom meets a woman applying for the same job he finds she shares his favorite spot and invites her for coffee afterwards she politely declines then changes her mind her name is Autumn cast Joseph Gordon levit as Tom Hansen a trained architect who works as a writer at a greeting card company zooie dis Chanel as summer Finn assistant to Tom’s boss Olivia bag as young summer Jeffrey Aaron as McKenzie Tom’s friend and co-worker at the greeting card company clly Grace mortz as Rachel Hansen Tom’s younger half sister Matthew Gray Gubler as Paul one of Tom’s friends Clark Greg as Vance Tom’s boss key Williams as Tommy Abraham Patricia Belcher as Millie Rachel Boston as Allison Tom’s blind date Minka Kelly as Autumn male Flanagan as Roa IET Nicole Brown as Vance’s new secretary Richard mcgonagle as narrator writing the film is presented as a nonlinear narrative each scene is introduced using a title card showing which of the 500 days it is co-writer of the film Scott new stadter admitted the film was based on a real romance new Stater explains that when he met the real girl who inspired the character summer as a student at the London School of economics in 22 he was rebounding from a bad breakup back home and promptly fell crazily madly hopelessly in love with the girl who returned his kisses but not his aror the ending of the relationship was painfully and unforgettably awful which prompted him to co-write the film with Michael H Weber when newater later showed the script to Summer’s real life counterpart she said she related more to the Tom character Weber also stated that we’ve all been in the trenches of Love we’ve all gone through the highs and lows so Scott and I felt that the only way to tell this story was to come at it from a completely real place it was pretty interesting for us because Scott was just going through a breakup and I was in a long-term relationship so we each brought a totally OPP opposite perspective living it and not living it and I think that tension helped to bring out more of the comedy Direction director Mark Webb has described the film as more of a Coming of Age story as opposed to a ROM calm he stated we arrive at a different conclusion for one thing plus most romantic comedies are more loyal to a formula than to emotional truth it’s about happiness and learning that you’ll find it within yourself rather than in the big blue eyes of the girl in the cubicle down the hall I wanted to make an unsentimental movie and an uncynical movie in my mind I wanted it to be something you could dance to that’s why we put a parenthesis in the title it’s like a pop song in movie form it’s not a big film it’s not about war or poverty it’s about 500 Days in a young guy’s relationship but it’s no less deserving of scrutiny when your heart is first broken it consumes you and it’s an emotion I wanted to make a movie about before I forgot how it felt Webb also stated that dis Chanel’s character summer is based on a stock character type yes summer is an immature view of a woman she’s Tom’s view of a woman he doesn’t see her complexity and the consequence for him is heartbreak in Tom’s eyes summer is perfection but Perfection has no debth summer is not a girl she’s a phasee Gordon levit explained that he was drawn to the role of Tom because of his relatability to the character I’ve had my heart broken before truly truly broken but when I look back at me in my heartbroken phase it’s pretty hilarious because it felt so much more extreme than it really was one of the things I love about 500 Days of Summer is that it doesn’t make light of what we go through in romances but it is honest about it and shows it for what it is which is often profoundly funny filming locations David NG of the Los Angeles Times describes architecture as a star of the film Tom is seen reading Elaine Deaton’s the architecture of Happiness the film was originally set in San Francisco but was later moved to Los Angeles and the script Rewritten to make better use of the location buildings used include the Los Angeles Music Center which includes the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the towers of California Plaza the old Fine Arts building is featured in the film in a scene where Tom shows it to Summer and mentions its designers Walker and Eisen two of his favorite Architects Christopher hawor of the Los Angeles Times describes the film as having finely honed sense of taste to include the Bradberry building where Tom goes for his job interview Tom’s favorite spot in Los Angeles was shot at Angel’s null which became a popular tourist attraction after the film film’s release since July 2013 it has been closed off to the public due to State cutbacks in his article about cinematic cartography Dr Chris Lucen suggests that the location of angels null mirrors Tom’s view of the world he argues that Tom only perceives the beauty of the buildings surrounding them and only acknowledges the parking lot when summer points it out to him he states that Tom is also unable to see beyond his expectations of hopeless romance costume design costume designer Hope hanifin Has revealed through interviews that Mark Webb insisted on the color blue being worn exclusively by summer he based his decision on zooie dis Chanel’s eye color but as Hanahan disclosed it works on a subconscious level as well attracting attention at all times the only scene to break this rule is the Hall and Oats dance sequence where many of the extras appear in blue the point of that was to show that in his morning after glow Tom’s whole world is a reflection of Summer the costumes are a mixture of vintage and fast fashion with the emphasis on staying realistic to what the characters could afford Summer’s wardrobe is refreshing and stylish without anything tying it to the years around the film’s release which gives the Aesthetics a Timeless quality soundtrack Two soundtrack albums were released for 500 Days of Summer the first first consisting of various pop songs from the film was released through sire records and reached no 42 on the billboard 200 Sales chart Andrew lehy of all music rated the album three and a half stars out of five saying with music playing such an integral role in the storyline it’s refreshing to see that the accompanying soundtrack does its job well distilling the characters record collections not to mention the movies quirky nostalgic Ambience into one ecle track list the second album consists of the film’s musical score composed By mikale Dana and Rob Simonson marketing to help promote the film Gordon levit and D Chanel starred in the debut episode of Microsoft zoom and mean Magazine’s cinemash Series in the episode they mash the characters from the film Sid and Nancy with story elements from 500 Days of Summer Mark Webb created a music video as a companion piece to the film titled the bank heist it features djanel and Gordon levit dancing to why do you let me stay here a song by dis Chanel’s folk group She and Him web remarked when we didn’t include zooie in the dance sequence in 500 days she was a little heartbroken and I felt like I needed to remedy that release the film made its debut at the 25th sundance’s Film Festival it proved a huge success and received a standing ovation from Festival crowds upon screening in Europe 500 Days of Summer premiered in Switzerland as the opening film of the 62nd locarno Film Festival filmed independently it was picked up for distribution by Fox Search light Pictures and opened in the United States and Canada on July 17 to9 later expanding to wide release on August 7 2009 it was later also released on September 2 2009 in Ireland and the United Kingdom and opened in Australia on September 17th 2009 box office upon the film’s initial limited release in the US it was expected to become the breakout Indie hit of the summer by September 8th the film had taken in $119 million from 318 screens in the United Kingdom this was regarded as a successful 5-day opening by Fox Search light earning around half as much as the science fiction Blockbuster District 99 which took in $135 million the film ended up grossing $1 324 million in the United States and Canada And1 67 million worldwide critical response on Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 85% based on 234 reviews with an average rating of 7610 the site’s critical consensus reads a clever offbeat romantic com comedy 500 Days of Summer is refreshingly honest and utterly Charming at the website’s year end golden tomato Awards which honored the best reviewed films of 2009 the film placed second in the Romantic category on Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 76 out of 100 based on 36 critics indicating generally favorable reviews Roger eert of the Chicago Sun Times gave the film Four Star s out of four describing the film as a delightful comedy alive with invention he particularly praised the strong performances of Gordon levit and dis Chanel and summarized his review by adding here is a rare movie that begins by telling us how it will end and is about how the hero has no idea why Premiere also awarded the film four stars out of four stating much like the actual summer the season not the character we never wanted it to n Michael ordonia of the Los Angeles Times gave a positive review he wrote 500 Days of Summer is something seldom seen an original romantic comedy it bristles with energy emotion and intellect as it flits about the dizzying highs and weeping karaoke lows of a passionate entanglement Dana Stevens of slate also praised the film and described it as a keeper it’s fun both to watch and to talk about afterward and it possesses The elusive ROM C sign quanon two equally appealing leads who bounce wonderfully off each other Entertainment Weekly critic Owen glabber gave the film an A and also praised the originality of the story most romantic comedies have half a dozen situations at best meet cute infatuation pop song Montage contrived mixup angry breakup and final clinch 500 Days of Summer is about the many unclassified iable moments in between it’s a feat of star acting and it helps make 500 Days not just bitter or sweet but everything in between film threat critic Scott KN gave the film a maximum five-star rating and called The Script fantastic he also lauded the film’s Innovative nature of course they meet of course they fall for each other of course there are problems it sounds cliche but what’s remarkable about 500 Days is how the film explores new ways to tell the world’s oldest story he concluded that the film was the best romantic comedy since Love Actually Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film three and a half stars out of four he wrote Boy Meets Girl boy loses girl it’s been done to a death that’s why the sublimely smart sexy joyful sad 500 Days of Summer hits you like a blast of pure romantic oxygen and concludes 500 days is otherwise a different kind of love story an honest one that takes a piece out of you USA today’s Claudia Puig wrote much like Annie Hall did for a previous generation 500 Days of Summer may be the movie that best captures a contemporary romantic sensibility in critic Eric Goldman gave the film N9 out of 10 and praised the film as one of the best of Tu and nine and particularly complimented the Innovative nature of the story in an often cliche genre 500 Days of Summer proved there is a way to bring something fresh and new to one of the most cliché and often frustrating genres the romantic comedy AO Scott of the New York Times gave the film four out of five and called it slight charming and refreshingly candid little picture Scott Tobias of the a club graded the film B but criticized it for its dispiriting cliches which make it wind up in a no man’s land between me Hollywood and something real NPR was more dismissive for all its rhetorical Whimsy and hipster dressings 500 Days of Summer is a thoroughly conservative Affair as culturally and romantically status quo as any Jennifer Aniston vehicle Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal was also more critical calling it synthetic and derivative a movie that’s popping with perceptions while searching for a style British newspaper the times gave him mixed review despite Toby Young awarding the film three stars out of five he critiqued it is hardly the freshest romantic comedy of past 20 years taking the best bits from other movies and rearranging them in a nonlinear sequence does not make for an original film The Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw said the film was let down by sitcom cliches and by being weirdly incurious about the inner life of its female lead Mark Adams of the Daily Mirror though gave the film a glowing review awarding it a full five stars and writing it is a modern romance for grownups a sweet-natured funny deeply romantic tale that brims with energy and is blessed with top-notch performances by Deschanel and Gordon levit who are both charming and have real chemistry Empire gave the film four out of five stars and wrote perfectly played simultaneously serious and light endlessly inventive this is a strong Contender for the most original date movie of the year cultural impact in the entertainment Weekly’s interview of the 10th anniversary of the film’s release the lead actors Joseph Gordon levit and zooie Deschanel addressed its cultural impact and the viewers frequent misconception of their characters such as thinking summer is a villain even though the film is told from Tom’s point of view summer is completely honest the entire movie Gordon levit repeatedly warned against sympathizing with his character Tom Who develops a mildly delusional obsession over a girl onto whom he projects all these fantasies That’s Falling in Love with the idea of a person not the actual person accolades Scott new stter and Michael H Weber received numerous awards for their screenplay including the 29 Hollywood film festival’s Hollywood breakthrough screenwriter award on October 26 to 2009 the satellite Award for best original screenplay the Southeastern film critics Association Award for best original screenplay with the film also being named in the top 10 films of the year as well as the Las Vegas film critics Society Award for best screenplay Alan Edward Bell won the San Diego film critics Society Award for best editing as well as the film being named one of the 10 best movies of the Year by the national board of review Awards 2009 the film also received two nominations at the 67th Golden Globe awards announced on December 15 2009 for best Motion Picture musical or comedy and for Joseph Gordon levit for best actor musical or comedy it has been nominated for four independent Spirit Awards and won the award for best screenplay 500 Days of Summer movie review we never remember in chronological order especially when we’re going going back over a failed romance we start near the end and then hop around between the times that were good and the times that left pain people always say start at the beginning but we didn’t know at the time it was the beginning 500 Days of Summer is a movie that works that way some say they’re annoyed by the way it begins on day 488 or whatever and then jumps around providing utterly unhelpful data labels day 1 day 200 49 movies are supposed to reassure us that events unfold in an orderly procession but Tom remembers his love summer as a series of Joys and bafflement what kind of woman likes you perfectly sincerely and has no one else in her life but is not interested in ever getting married zooie dis Chanel is a good choice to play such a woman I can’t imagine her playing a clinging Vine to warnery as Summer she sees Tom with a level gaze and is who she is it’s Tom’s bad luck she is sweet and smart and beautiful it’s not an act she is always scrupulously honest with him she is her own person and Tom can’t have her have you known someone like that in Romance we believe what we want to believe that’s the reason 500 Days of Summer is so appealing Tom is in love with Summer from the moment he sees her his thoughts on love may not run as deeply as say those of the Romantic Poets he writes greeting cards and you suspect he may believe his own cards it’s amazing people get paid for a job like that I could do it love is a rose and you are its pedals summer is his boss’s new assistant she likes his looks and makes her move one day over the Xerox machine can he accept that she simply likes him for now not for forever the movie which is a delightful comedy alive with invention is about Tom wrestling with that reality the director Mark web seems to be casting about for templates from other movies to help him tell this story that’s not desperation but playfulness there’s a little black and white a little musical number a little felini which is always helpful in evoking a man in the act of Yearning Tom spends this movie in the emotional quander of Mastro in La doce Vita his hand always outstretched toward his inaccessible fantasies summer remains mysterious all through the film perhaps because we persist with Tom in expecting her to cave in when we realize she is not required to in this movie because it’s not playing by the Hollywood rules we perk up Anything Could Happen the kaleidoscopic time structure breaks the shackles of the three act grid and thrashes about with the freedom of romantic confusion one thing men love is to instruct women if a woman wants to enchant a man she she is wise to play his pupil men fall for this Tom set out in life to be an architect not a poet of greeting cards he and summer share the same favorite view of Los Angeles one you may not have seen before and he conducts for her an architectural tour this is fun not because we get to see wonderful buildings but because so rarely in the movies do we find characters arguing for their aesthetic values what is your average character played by an alist star believe about truth and Beauty has Jason Bourne ever gone to a museum on his day off Joseph Gordon levit has acted in a lot of movies ranging from one of the Halloween sequels to the Indie gem brick he comes into Focus here playing a believable likable guy hopeful easily disappointed a little Tom Hanan he is strong enough to expect love weak enough to be hurt zooie dis Chanel evokes that ability in some women to Madden you with admiration while never seeming to give it the slightest thought she also had that quality in the overlooked gigantic 2008 although the movie’s peculiar supporting characters obscured it Tom opens the film by announcing it will not be your typical Love Story are you like me and when you realize a movie is on autopilot you get impatient with it how long can the characters pretend they don’t know how the story will end here is a rare movie that begins by telling us how it will end and is about how the hero has no idea why as the narrator of 500 Days of Summer tells us in its opening this is not a love story that may be but it’s certainly one that’s in love with its own storytelling the biggest frustration is that while that storytelling is phenomenal the story its telling is thin unemotional and isn’t worthy of Mark web’s brilliant Direction told out of sequence 500 Days of Summer follows the emotional Arc of Tom Joseph Gordon levit an aspiring architect who works at a greeting card company and falls in love with the boss new assistant summer zooie dis Chanel Tom’s problem is that calling him a hopeless romantic would be an understatement he watches The Graduate and thinks that it’s a happy ending which in my view may be some form of sociopathy but he falls head over heels for summer and we see their relationship as it bounces back and forth from the highs of puppy love to some are pulling away from Tom and the mix of Anguish and regret he feels over their breakup we see the story as it bounces around to various days and we see it through nice touches like references to classic foreign films and even a big dance number set to Hall and Oats You Make My Dreams Come True thrown in after Tom seals the deal as it were as a feature directorial debut you couldn’t have a better coming out than Mark web does here while writers Scott newad and Michael Weber did lay out the chronology jumps and other eye-catching moments Webb makes them work and knows how to set the right mood and shot to fit Tim’s mood there’s also a scene that does a split screen of Tom’s expectations versus reality that will go down as one of the best Cinema moments of 2 A9 sadly for all the effort that was put into telling the story in fresh and innovative ways the story itself is still flat and unin interesting romantic comedy Staples like the wise sibling the painfully precocious younger sister dishing out romantic advice is agonizingly tweet and the Kookie best friends are present while putting the entire story at Tom’s perspective leaves summer feeling anemic and while I’m no fan of dis Chanel’s acting abilities there’s absolutely nothing to work with for her summer doesn’t have any friends or personal Ambitions and while Tom may just be in love with the idea of being in love it’s still has to be with a real person or else the emotional reality feels Hollow Gordon levit has more to work with and he does a fine job but it’s a fruitless Endeavor when the love of a love story is approached so cold and clinically while every effort is expended to the story I’ve heard that other audiences especially the ones at Sundance found 500 Days of Summer to be a delight and a romance in the vein of Annie Hall I couldn’t find the emotional truth buried beneath the Stellar Direction so while the story left me cold I have great hopes for Webb and his future endeavors other information about this film boy gets girl and boy loses girl in convoluted sometimes clawing But ultimately winning fashion in 500 Days of Summer stylish feature debut by longtime music video director Mark web goes out of its way to take an unconventional approach to telling one of the oldest stories in the book only to Prevail by embracing the fact that the fundamental things apply a cute leading couple a rooting interest in their welfare and a genuine feeling for heartbreak and the belief that life must go on set for July 24 release this looks like a real commercial winner with young audiences in an era when a house style is fundamentally antithetical to the nature of the film business Fox Search light could now be said to be developing something akin to such a style or at least a keen feel for the tastes of its bright and Youthful Niche audience it’s hard to watch summer without at times thinking of Slum Dog Millionaire and Juno for the time jumping structure and lustrous visual style of the former the strong identification with young lovers of the latter and the musical distinctiveness of both it’s spoiling nothing to reveal that the central romance doesn’t work out as the structure of Scott Nader and Michael H Weber’s script spins on offering moments from the entire relationship in UNC chronological bits and pieces with the aim of creating an emotional Mosaic impact of the same piece presented in normal order would probably be nearly identical but while the temporal jigsaw puzzle will strike some as an attention getting mannerism the device will likely serve its purpose in making a sentiment-based story seem distinctive and unusual enough to be cool to its intended audience at its heart this is a story of the devastation of of romantic rejection the spirit crushing defeat of being dumped by the person you believed was the love of your life told from the male point of view a firm comic perspective is established from the outset as is the nonlinear structure the title conveys the number of days that elapse from when Tom Joseph Gordon levit first lays eyes on summer zooie dis Chanel to when they say their final goodbye pick opens on day 488 and numbers keep popping up on screen to indicate the time of the action Tom a good-looking guy on the shy side studied to be an architect but now works in downtown Los Angeles writing greeting cards at an office that looks impossibly hip and fashionably appointed for the inan products the company produces as soon as his boss hires the lovely summer as his new assistant Tom Zager while they mildly Bond over Mutual musical tastes it takes a drunken office karaoke party to light their fires even then Tom is too reserved to make the first move which she eventually does in the office copy room web adroitly captures the moods of Love’s different stages and celebrates Tom’s finally scoring with Summer in a boisterous bring the House Down musical production number in a Central LA park a certain imbalance permeates the relationship even at its peak since Tom believes in Destiny with one true love while summer just wants someone fun and regards him more as is a fantasy still things go well for a while until for no apparent reason summer turns cooler the leads provide everything a romantic comedy needs in terms of flare and likeability cagier and less cookie cutter than the young pretty boys normally seen in such Fair Gordon levit expressively alternates between enthusiasm and forlorn disappointment in the manner Jack Lemon could and it makes you really root for the guy after some years as a favorite enthusiasm of Indie Fanboys dis Chanel seems to be truly coming into her own now and she enchantingly conveys Summer’s Allure elusiveness and Quicksilver nature the film Falls far short however in the comic relief supporting roles an area in which the genre usually affords riches Tom’s manic workmate McKenzie Jeffrey arand and longtime best friend Paul Matthew Gray Gubler are supposed to provide sounding boards and morale boosts but they are both deeply unfunny Subs sitcom caricatures who throw the film tonally off base whenever they’re around Tom’s smarty pants unnaturally mature teenage sister exemplifies the film’s unappealing strain of overweening cleverness shot by Eric steelberg Juno 500 Days is very sharp visually and Exhibits loads of energy without hyperventilating Tom’s enduring architectural interests are wonderfully exploited through the underutilized downtown locations Los Angeles plot plays a key role and at one point Tom gives summer an expert’s tour of choice old buildings the color coordination of the locations Laura Fox’s outstanding production design and hope hanahan’s costumes enrich the film’s lustrous look the pick overflows with music a bit obtrusively at times but excerpts are smartly chosen positive elements 500 Days of Summer wrestles albeit playfully with the question of what it means to be in a real committed relationship as infatuation seizes Tom and as summer begins to reciprocate it seems he’s initially content to concede to Summer’s desire not to label what’s happening between them eventually though Tom wants to know if their relationship really means anything to her even though she’s warned him against wanting more or longing for lasting commitment that’s exactly where Tom’s heart goes arguably illustrating the fact that love is serious business and that our Hearts aren’t really designed for casual or recreational affection or sex for that matter a subject will deal with a bit more as this review moves along as Tom rides the roller coaster of life with Summer well-meaning friends try their best to counil him through the ups and inevitable Downs among these people is his little sister Chloe who’s perhaps 11 or 12 a cooworker named McKenzie and Tom’s lifelong best friend Paul their council is an always precisely helpful but they should still be credited for doing their best to try to help Tom navigate the mysteries of why things work or don’t when it comes to romance one healthy observation Paul makes Len’s perspective to The Divide between fantasy and reality he says of his significant other Robin’s better than the girl of my dreams she’s real Su are encourages Tom to pursue his architecture dreams again even though Tom has mostly given them up he eventually does just that throwing himself into his desire to become an architect in an attempt to channel his disappointment about how things go with Summer in a meltdown at work provoked by his deteriorating connection with Summer Tom rightly identifies movies music and greeting cards as significant cultural influences that shape our expectations about romance in a Twist near the end summer suddenly marries someone else Tom is devastated but a poignant closure conversation between them involves summer Telling Tom that he was the one who helped her to believe that love was actually possible his Earnest open and hopeful Nature has ultimately influenced summer even if she wasn’t able to love him the way he loved her spiritual elements the intrinsically spiritual subjects of fate and destiny are at the center of the film’s exploration of modern romance Tom’s boss mentions the fact that Tom has suffered a loss of Faith song lyrics include the phrase original sin Tom briefly interacts with a group of greeting card writers who work in the religious and sympathy Division and there’s a joking reference to Jesus mother Mary someone is said to have Jesus ABS sexual content Tom and Summer’s growing friendship quickly leads to sexual involvment before their first such encounter summer tells Tom I’m not really looking for anything serious is that okay Tom assures her that it is then goes in the bathroom to try to convince himself of the same thing talking to himself in the mirror when he comes out we see summer sprawled on the bed and Glimpse the backside of one bear shoulder a camera shot that pays homage to a similar image in The Graduate a film that Tom mentions several times as one of the most influential films of his adolescence Tom and summer visit the adults only section of a video store rent a pornographic film and then try to imitate one of the scenes in the shower we don’t see anything explicit in the film or between Tom and summer we glimpse a hand or two above the shower curtain before they pull it down and the camera Cuts away during a fight regarding whether they’re a couple or not Tom derisively says that they’re just shower sex friends a bit further on they go to another pornographic movie at a theater at an Ikea store Tom and some snuggle suggestively on a display bed and begin kissing when they notice that there’s another family with a couple of children watching them at a public park with children around Tom and summer take turns yelling penis ever more loudly card writing co-workers trying to brainstorm new holidays come up with one for lesbian mothers while drunk McKenzie asks summer if she’s got a boyfriend when she says no he asks if she’s a lesbian later we learn that one of her ex’s was in fact a woman another of Tom’s friends quizzes him using crude sexual descriptions about what Tom and summer have and haven’t done together a woman wears a low cut dress sans’s bra violent content Tom clocks a man in a bar who’s aggressively hitting on summer and belittling him the man smacks him back and the screen Fades to Black indicating that Tom was knocked out elsewhere Tom processes his emotional Pain by picking up three or four dinner plates and robotically smashing them on the countertop reference is made to Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols stabbing his girlfriend later Tom draws a sketch of a large bloody knife stabbing summer in a scene that’s played for humor crude or profane language one fword and about 15 words characters take Jesus name in vain twice and gdn is uttered once we hear about a dozen other vulgarities including bch h and a and there’s one crude reference each to male and female anatomy drug and alcohol content summer Tom and McKenzie go to a bar for karaoke night summer and Tom drink shots and beer and McKenzie gets very very drunk he practically has to be carried to a waiting cab later Tom offhandedly says he’s not intoxicated enough to sing whereupon summer enthusiastically waves the waiter to their table the next scene pictures a quite inebriated Tom warbling away at the mic in a similar scene Tom gets exceedingly drunk at the same karaoke bar in a failed attempt to drown his Sorrows when he’s breaking the aformentioned plates Tom’s little sister suggests vodka to calm him down we also see Tom with a bottle of whiskey at one of his lowest points other negative elements in his depression following the end of his relationship with Summer Tom spends day after day at home half eaten Twinkies an aspirin bottle and alcohol containers are strewn haphazardly about his apartment Tom takes a mean-spirited shot at McKenzie’s non-existent love life a story is told about the last time McKenzie went to a bar for karaoke night an outing that concluded with him vomiting and trying to set the place on fire the tweenage Rachel makes a joke about PMS conclusion I made my first profession of love when I was 7 years old sounds crazy I know but I thought it was the real thing her name was Wendy a girl from my elementary school who lived just a few blocks away and so one day I mustered my courage walked to her house rang the bell and promptly confessed I love you her nonchalant response Adam I’ve only been in love twice I don’t think you love me it was my first but not my last heart-rending brush with unrequited affection which brings us in a roundabout way to 500 Days of Summer anyone who has ever traversed the dizzying heights of euphoric infatuation to the abject despondency that settles in after rejection will empathize with Tom Hansen’s plight the film captures the raw wound of rejection as deafly as anything I’ve seen in a long time but it also illustrates our culture’s deep confusion when it comes to love sex intimacy and commitment shortly after Tom tells summer that he likes her she reciprocates and they quickly end up in bed together sex then is simply an assumed step in the process of getting to know each other a process aided for the record by liberal amounts of alcohol in the story in fact Tom and Summer cross this bridge long before summer allows him into the inner sanctum of her apartment and begins to share some things she’s never told anyone in this sense 500 Days of Summer reinforces the damaging idea that sexual intimacy early in a relationship is normal and expected certainly not something we should make too big a deal about if things don’t work out well too bad but at least we had some fun while we were at it this we’re supposed to think is simply the way things are and yet Tom is devastated and rightly so he’s given summer everything emotionally and physically and been left with nothing he Longs for something better something concrete something real a love that is true and that’s something summer is unable to give him even though she readily offers her body as a substitute for a Time the end result is nothing short of a disaster a wedding between two minor characters late in the film subtly underscores what it is that Tom Pines for a permanent commitment until he finds it though we’re left with the feeling that he’ll keep offering his body and soul to each successive person he falls for that’s an approach liable to yield more and more heartache for him and for anyone influenced by his and Summer’s tragically confused example of what it means to have sex and make romance what you need to know 500 Days of Summer tells the Charming and quirky yet surprisingly realistic story about a boy who meets a girl falls falls in love and experiences heartbreak and self-discovery when he finds out the girl doesn’t feel the same The Story begins with Tom an idealistic would be architect turned greeting card writer Who falls in love with Summer his boss’s beautiful new secretary from the moment they meet Tom is smitten and over the course of their 500 day Relationship Tom experiences the high of being young and in love the Heartbreak of being dumped and the journey of self-discovery 500 Days of Summer has some commendable elements including its high production values and its positive affirmations of marriage The Artsy directing strong performances intelligent dialogue and the creative elements used such as split screens time jumps a song and dance number and illustrations are delightful to watch they all work together to make the plot unfolds splendidly well content strong romantic worldview where protagonist is emotionally driven and believes he will never truly be happy until he finds the one and his idealistic path to self-discovery and fulfillment of personal dreams is completely devoid of God although one character serves as the voice of reason to his passion plus new age Pagan element with main character believing in fate or some Cosmic Universal Force controlling Humanity light homosexual material with character who is not always portrayed in the most positive light as a bit of A desperate sleazy bag proposing a new holiday greeting card called other Mother’s Day and same character asks girl if she’s a lesbian because she likes being single and independent and some moral elements with two positive affirmations of marriage one of these by a character who starts out being against Mary age serious relationships because of past hurts and ends up getting married 25 obscenities and three profanities character smashes a few plates and character punches man in a bar and gets punch punched in return strong sexual content includes sexual depiction of two dogs A couple of derogatory words one said by a little girl used in reference to a woman I.E skank passionate kissing three instances of implied fornication character breaks out in a song and dance number to celebrate being young and in love and fornicating with his girlfriend the night before couple enters the adults only section of a video store and rent a porn film to watch some instances of a fully clothed couple laying on bed and talking woman briefly discusses some of her past relationships which include one homosexual relationship and a relationship with a man nicknamed Puma because of the size of his male genitalia two characters see who can yell the word penis the loudest in a park upper male nudity and woman’s upper be back while laying in bed characters drink beer at a bar and with dinner drink shots at a bar and at a wedding drink glasses of wine during a birthday party man’s little sister gives him a shot of vodka three instances where characters are drunk and man buys strong alcohol from a convenience store no smoking or drugs and one reference to Jesus having great abs woman wants keep relationships casual because she says she doesn’t believe in love her worldview is a result of the pain she experienced as a young girl when her parents divorced but this is eventually resolved though aart from God and characters and story consistently affirm the new age principle of Fate with protagonist embarking on path of self-discovery within himself and completely devoid of God more detail 500 Days of Summer is a fantastically directed charming and quirky yet so realistic movie about a boy who meets a girl falls in love and experiences heartbreak and self-discovery when he finds out the girl doesn’t feel the same although there are many many commendable elements in regards to the production values and the movie’s affirmation of marriage the experience is ultimately marred by a strong romantic worldview foul language alcohol use and sexual material this semi-autobiographical story taken from the writer’s own experiences opens with Tom Hansen an idealistic would be architect turned greeting card writer who believes he will never truly be happy until he finds the one Tom sees the world world as being controlled by a cosmic force that some could call fate however summer Finn his boss’s new secretary and the focus of Tom’s deep affection does not believe as he does in fact she doesn’t believe in love at all and calls it a fantasy saying that most marriages end in divorce anyway her views are very much shaped by the hurt she experienced as a young girl during her parents’ divorce she doesn’t want to get hurt in that way or make herself too vulnerable from the moment he meets her Tom’s feelings for summer continuously grow as he discovers the things they have in common I.E they both love the Smiths a rock group but she makes it very clear from the beginning that she is only looking for a casual relationship with no labels attached Tom believing that he has the power to break down her walls thinks little of her assertion and decides to take his chances the movie shifts back and forth over the course of the 500 100 days of their relationship from the Blissful moments to the Heartbreak on again and off again to the first few dates followed by no more dates from Tom’s path to self-discovery and the question he must answer is summer really the one for him as Tom struggles to make sense of love and heartbreak he is forced to decide whether he truly believes that the love between two people is cosmically destined the movie’s ending may surprise some viewers but most will be pleasantly surprised as Tom begins a new season of his life so to speak 500 Days of Summer has some very commendable elements in regards to the production values as well as the positive affirmations of marriage The Artsy directing is superb by first time movie director Mark Webb a compilation of split screens dream sequences time jumps a song and dance number narrators a cartoon bird illustrations and other creative techniques are used to tell the story it might seem like the movie could be over the toop with this many creative elements added but it actually works splendidly the music is also delightful and the acting worthy of recognition especially for Joseph Gordon levit the dialogue between the two main characters is witty and intelligent reminiscent of true to life experiences finally although the plot may be simple it unfolds well the positive affirmations of marriage arise when Tom Tom and summer attend the wedding of a coworker and also when summer herself who was seemingly against it in the beginning ends up getting married despite these commendable elements 500 Days of Summer contains a fair amount of content requiring caution for viewers one problematic element concerns Tom’s little sister Rachel who is probably about 11 to 13 years old at various times during the movie she serves as his voice of reason and sometimes has good words of wisdom for example she encourages Tom to be more objective and to try examining his relationship with Summer from the perspective that she might not actually be the one for him the problem occurs in a couple of instances where Rachel gives Tom a shot of vodka to help calm him down after his breakup and also where she uses a derogatory word to call him a wimp although these instances are played for Laughs they are unnecessary and out of place 500 days of summer is very much dominated by a romantic worldview where the characters are young idealistic and very much Guided by their emotions apart from reason and apart from God while audiences will root for the easily relatable character of Tom the enduring meaning that can be taken away from the movie is lacking and somewhat Hollow because it completely leaves God out of the picture although the movie ultimately extols marriage it is only through Jesus Christ that we can truly discover our true identity and purpose as his children as Genesis 1:27 says so God created man in his own image in the image of God he created him male and female he created them also in John 1:12 yet to all who received him to those who believed in his name he gave the right to become children of God and as one Peter 29 States but you are a chosen people a royal priesthood a holy nation a people belonging to God that you may declare the Praises of him who called you out of Darkness into his wonderful light lastly Ephesians 1:4 says for he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight one of 2009’s best films 500 Days of Summer proved there is a way to bring something fresh and new to one of the most cliche and often frustrating genres the romantic comedy Joseph Gordon levitar as Tom whose job writing greeting cards gets a lot more exciting when he meets his new cooworker summer zooie dis chainel she’s adorable she’s cool she’s funny and she likes the same music as Tom obviously she’s perfect but we know from the start that this is a doomed relationship it’s right there in the title of course writers Scott newer and Michael H Weber and director Mark web tell the story in nonlinear fashion most scenes begin on a completely different day of the relationship moving back and forth Through Time across those 500 days we can go from Tom and Summer’s most joyful moment to a tension-filled encounter within the space on screen that is of a minute and then back to happier times it could be jarring but the filmmakers completely pull it off here a key component is the film’s healthy sense of humor there are certainly genuine heartfelt moments but the film never wallows in misery or over sentimentality or perhaps it’s more correct to say that when there are moments that are overly sentimentalized it’s purposeful and shown in a clever manner we’re seeing how Tom is building up moments in his mind in a way that doesn’t really connect to reality in the way people do when they’re so deeply and desperately in love romantic comedies are almost all aimed at women and thus are mostly told from a woman’s point of view that being the case it’s surprisingly refreshing to have one told from the point of view of a young male and many male viewers will empathize with Tom and the way it’s so easy to be absolutely sure you’ve met the girl of your dreams even when there are obvious signs that things can and will go sour in the past few years Gordon levit has given excellent performances in films like brick and the lookout 500 Days of Summer allows the actor to show a far more light-hearted side when Tom’s not in his morose moments that is and Gordon levit proves to be very charming and likable in this type of role dis Chanel is very well cast as summer perfectly embodying the type of quirky cool girl guys like Tom go crazy for it’s a bit of a tricky role because as their relationship takes a turn for the worse it’s hard not to feel pretty negative about summer and some of the things she does it’s certainly true that her character is not as fleshed out as Tom but that’s kind of the point since the movie movie is about how Tom perceives the highs and lows of this relationship my only notable quibble with 500 Days of Summer is the portrayal of Tom’s little sister Rachel Khloe Mort soon to be kicking ass in Kickass filled with precocious wise Beyond her years’s advice the character just comes off as false and overly cute in a way the film doesn’t need that’s easy to forgive though because 500 Days of Summer is overall a wonderful film The much talked about big Hall and Oats dance number Toms in head perception of how things are going with summer is easily one of the most fun impossible to resist sequences you could hope to see and while the film is very much character-driven web’s music video past serves him well in several visual tangents the story takes showing different facets of Tom’s poav on what is occurring it’s easy to dismiss romantic comedies as having nothing new to offer and most of the time that’s true true but web new stter and Weber prove there is certainly room to find a different and highly engaging take on this type of material and manag to have a happy ending regardless of whether a specific couple lives happily ever after together or not this film directed by Mark Webb written by Scott newer Michael H Weber produced by Mason novic Jessica tuchinsky Mark Waters Steven J wolf starring Joseph Gordon levit zooie dis Channel cinematography Eric steelberg edited by Alan Edward bell music by Mikel Dana Rob Simonson production company Dune Entertainment distributed by Fox Search light Pictures release dates January 17 2009 in Sundance August 7 2009 in United States running time 95 minutes country United States language English budget $175 million box office $167 million so guys this is the review of 500 Days of Summer movie and some information about it how how do you like our today’s video please let us know by commenting and if you like this video please like
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Movie Credits!
Directed by: Marc Webb
Written by: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber
Produced by: Mason Novick, Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend
Production Company: Dune Entertainment
Distributed by: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release Date: January 17, 2009
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