Wednesday, April 24, 2013

500 Days of Summer


A boy, Tom. A girl, Summer. Just an average girl who thought did not not exsist. Then there was Tom. The man that fell in love with her.

The film uses time in an interesting back and forth to show how two people can have very different views upon love. It starts from the middle rather than the end of the love story. From there we can see that Tom is clearly unhappy. This was not the case when he first met her on day one but on days that when we move further into the timeline shows that he has conflicting messages coming from her. This is proven false when he describes certain situations that he has experienced. It only shows that he has over analyzed it once again. The important part to grasp from this movie is that these love hate evets occured back and forth but in the way we veiwed them, it very much seemed like he had everything right. But we are viewing these things from that of Tom’s perspective.

The most important thing that made this film absolutely fantastic was timing. Marc Webb prooved that not only a comedy genre had to be good with timing but also a romantic story had to have this as well. This is understandable considering that both comedy and romance both appeal to that of the pleasurable parts of the brain rather than that of those of Sci-fi or Action. If we go back to the beginning of the film, we can also see that the director made interesting parallelisms between the two characters to make sure the audience unterstood the space that forms between them. This can be seen as something that comes natural to all of us but it can also be an element best used to describe relationships and space. Plus another factor or element I would say that made this film was how relatable the characters were to this modern day of romance. Sure many of us look fo love but it does not always play out like those cheesy romantic comedies make it out to be. 

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