jamiedelany 500 Days of Summer is a brilliantly crafted film that captures attention and tugs on heartstrings in a unique way. My initial reaction to the movie was two thumbs up due to it's aesthetically pleasing nature and intricate story line, I would absolutely recommend this movie as a fun movie to watch that still has meaning behind it. A principle part of the movie is the nonconventional sequence it follows. It jumps around from different points in their relationship so the viewer doesn't watch their relationship from start to finish but rather a scatter of events from it. Also, the narrator states in the beginning of the movie, "this is not a love story". This creative production of the movie is what differentiates it from conventional movies about relationships. The next interesting aspect of the movie is the colors it uses. Tom is primarily brown, Summer is primarily blue. The viewer can tell the intensity of their relationship at the time by the color of their clothes or the color of the room or scene around them. It also shows how incompatible Tom and Summer really are. They are two different people based on their colors. Therefore, they spend a bit of the movie trying to force themselves to be someone they aren't, which is why they don't end up together. The reason I truly loved the movie was the characters, Tom is a stubborn man who tries to shape the world around him to his liking. Summer is emotionally unavailable. Watching these two interact is oddly intriguing, watching them fall out of love makes sense. I still somehow was left thinking they might work out. The movie is similar to Hero (2002) directed by Zhang Yimou. This movie paints each scene with a different color. This helps the viewer understand the emotions of the film through visual clues. It's a very beautiful way to convey emotion. The movie projects the idea that trying to be someone you're not and trying to be with someone you're not meant to be with leads to unhappiness. This very real message portrayed in an interesting way makes the movie an overall great watch.

willeasyer Before today I've never got the chance to watch it and focus on it from beginning to end, so I needed to give it a nice watch because I genuinely identify it plus I love the smiths, and I've been waiting to find that sparkle of true love since ever. Besides the obviosity of its visual beauty, excellent directing, writing and music it's a movie that describes what's like to be in love in a non conventional way, where the characters aren't the main subject. It's mainly about love and all phases of relationships with all its ups and downs and in such a stunning detail starting from the secret crush to honeymoon phase until reality catches up. It's about true love, and how unexpected and random it is, it can never be planned it just happens. That's why it touched me on a personal level if a relationship is over it means it wasn't the right one yet the most important thing is moving on and focusing on oneself and love will come at the right time without rush and that's what happened to Tom.

classicsoncall Being well removed from the target audience for a film like this, I can only say I tolerated it for the purpose of posting a review, recommended as a Top 250 Movie for 2009, the year it was released. Like a lot of teenage/young adult heart throb stories, they're usually a one-shot affair as it's present rating wouldn't make the cutoff for the current year's listing. It's not that I have anything against films like this, I just find them mediocre at best with not a lot to say about anything, unless you're someone of the same age dealing with the kind of coming of age issues as Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Summer (Zooey Deschanel). I thought their portrayals were good by the way, though the way Summer came across seemed like she didn't care about herself very much the way she entered her non-relationship with Tom. And the way Tom burned his bridges at the greeting card company more than anything displayed his own immaturity. He would need a new job referral, wouldn't he? The one creative effort in the picture I liked was the split screen, Expectations/Reality scenario which diverged and and then dovetailed back on itself during the party scene. The split screen technique isn't new, but I don't think I've seen it used that way before. Before seeing this movie, for the life of me I couldn't figure out how the five hundred days of summer was going to play out in the story, never thinking that it might have been a character's name. But at the finale, I had a pretty good idea what the new girl's name would be, because after all, what comes after summer. In Tom's case, we'll never know if he found true happiness with Autumn, or if he was headed for a big fall.

cadence921 Tom who works at a greeting card company falls in love with Summer who is his boss's new assistant at first sight. They discover that they have a same taste in music in the elevator and they start to interact with each other.This film describes a difference between men and women realistically. In this film, the man believes in love of fate, but the woman is a realist. I realized that everyone has different ideas about love again through this film.I like music and fashion of this film, especially Summer's fashion is very pretty. I think that people who just likes music or fashion can enjoy this film.This film is not represented by a time series, so viewers may become a little confused. However, it goes back and force between happy scenes and unhappy scenes and I was so excited at their relationship.I think that men and women have quite different opinions of this film.