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Monday, October 12, 2009 | 10:50 PM
500 days of summer
"This is a story of boy meets girl. But you should know up front, this is not a love story." And yes, the introduction pretty much sets the mood for the entire show. Essentially the movie was about the story of how boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, but unfortunately, girl doesn't. Quirky and full of irony, yet hardly falling into adopting movie cliches, 500 Days of Summer was able to emote the tale in such a way that was fresh and kept me on my feet throughout the show. I especially liked how the scenes go back and forth by using the number of days (day 347, day 28 etc) to juxtapose the highs and lows of a relationship, if you could use that to describe what the male and female leads shared. I went in seriously not expecting much, and like edwin, it turned out that we both really enjoyed the film. Being a hardcore fan of happy endings, unfortunately the movie (for extremely personal and selfish reasons) stopped short of wowing the socks off me. but it was the few movies that made me wanna go get the dvd and watch it all over again, and again... ps: the title "500 Days Of Summer" refers to the 500 days that Tom (boy) spends with his girlfriend - Summer (girl). pps: at the risk of sounding ahem.., Joseph Gordon-Levitt was really dashing.. me reckons he looks like a younger and not-so-rough heath ledger... :P |
