So I rolled up to the theater on Tuesday night expecting to see some Garden State-esqe indie flick that tries disgustingly hard to be the sequel to Juno, but I was pleasantly surprised. This movie is actually wonderful. It's told in a completely non-chronological (what's the actual word I'm looking for?) order and in tiny snippets, which makes the story much more honest because it stresses more heavily on the different emotions that Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt experiences). Not to mention that it was just really interesting. I haven't seen anything like this before.
There is also a really neat moment near the end of the movie where a split screen is used. On one half of the screen we see what actually happened during Tom's evening, on the other half of the screen we see what Tom's expectations for the evening were. The contrast is very bittersweet.
If you've seen the trailer, essentially you've seen the first 3 minutes of the movie already (I was seriously confused when the movie started playing, I thought they were showing the trailer and I thought "Hm, well that's odd") and the trailer doesn't lie. When the narrator states "this is not a love story" he is speaking the complete truth. 500 Days Of Summer is not a love story, but rather a story of letting go of love. If you've ever been disgustingly head over heels for anyone else you will eat this movie up like dairy queen. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, I ate the movie up like dairy queen.
Oh, and can we please just take a moment of silence for Zooey Deschanel and how godly she is....
...............thank you.
The soundtrack is completely legit too, lots o' Regina Spektor. I can't stop listening to 'Hero'
tis a wonderful movie,
go see it
-Me
There is also a really neat moment near the end of the movie where a split screen is used. On one half of the screen we see what actually happened during Tom's evening, on the other half of the screen we see what Tom's expectations for the evening were. The contrast is very bittersweet.
If you've seen the trailer, essentially you've seen the first 3 minutes of the movie already (I was seriously confused when the movie started playing, I thought they were showing the trailer and I thought "Hm, well that's odd") and the trailer doesn't lie. When the narrator states "this is not a love story" he is speaking the complete truth. 500 Days Of Summer is not a love story, but rather a story of letting go of love. If you've ever been disgustingly head over heels for anyone else you will eat this movie up like dairy queen. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, I ate the movie up like dairy queen.
Oh, and can we please just take a moment of silence for Zooey Deschanel and how godly she is....
...............thank you.
The soundtrack is completely legit too, lots o' Regina Spektor. I can't stop listening to 'Hero'
tis a wonderful movie,
go see it
-Me
