The film tells the story of Tom Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Summer Zooey Deschanel , two oddball people who begin dating, which is great until he starts to fall in love and she doesn't. Most Hollywood love stories are so corny and have so much sugar on them that one can't help but get choked in all the stupidity but thankfully that doesn't ring true with this independent masterpiece that manages to be thoughtful, intelligent, funny, sad and perfect nail down the ups and downs of a relationship.
What works so well with this story is how incredibly charming it is right from the start. The masterful screenplay is so perfectly written that it can jump from happy to sad times and not miss a beat. A lot of director's wouldn't be able to handle this jump and that's why so many films end up feeling uneven but director Webb handles it all perfectly well and doesn't miss a beat. Another major plus is that the performances are so excellent that you can't help but fall in love with the characters.
Gordon-Levitt plays that "dork" type of character but he brings so much more to the role. His comic timing is perfect but he also manages to be very believable in the more dramatic moments and this includes a rather heartbreaking scene at the end when he finally builds up the courage to ask Summer a certain question while sitting on a park bench.
Deschanel seems to have a strong cult following around her and I was never a member until this film. She is so incredible in the role that I honestly can't sit here and think of anyone who would have been better or done more with it.
She is so flawless in building up her role into a real character because you could have written her off as the bad person but that never happens because we, unlike Tom, can understand her feelings and her reasons for being the way she is.
This is really a film about a guy who finds happiness and expects it to last forever when the second person might not be looking that far ahead. To me the film has a lot to say about relationships, feelings and just human nature all around.
Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. SnoopyStyle 17 August Tom Hansen Joseph Gordon-Levitt is always looking for the one. Summer Finn Zooey Deschanel doesn't believe in love since her parents' divorce. The narration explains that "This is not a love story". The movie moves in a non-linear timeline. Summer is the new assistant to his boss Vance Clark Gregg in his greeting card workplace and he falls head over heals. Zooey is the 'It' girl and JGL is playing the adorable leading man.
Zooey is a great fantasy girlfriend. They make a fine rom-com couple or in this case, the anti-rom-com couple. The non-linear structure and the serious narration give it a fantasy feel.
It's offbeat in tone and in structure. It's not dripping in realism but it is loads of fun. Music video director Marc Webb brings a different sensibility to this traditional genre.
When the romantic Tom sees the newcomer assistant Summer Finn Zoey Deschanel in the office, he immediately has a crush on her. A couple of months later, they start to date each other but Summer tells him that she does not believe in love and they are just friends; but Tom is sure that Summer is the woman of his life.
When they break their relationship, Tom's younger sister Rachel Chloe Moretz advises him to forget Summer. In the end, he discovers that after Summer, there is Autumn. The screenplay uses the idea of "Przypadek" with the Expectation and Reality of Tom and Summer reunion in the roof party.
Zoey Deschanel is very sweet and beautiful performing a hypocrite character and shows a great chemistry with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but the unexpected conclusion of their boring romance is totally disappointing. My vote is six. But in this case, you can really be sure that it is different. More related to the movie "Swingers", although quite a bit lighter, this really works great.
Having really great leads helps too. While I think the time-line jumps are a good thing, some might be confused by them and might not like them at all. 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 Movie for , the year it was released.
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 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. An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman Zooey 'Poopsy' Deschanel who does not believe true love exists, and the young man Joseph Gordon-Levitt who falls for her. I am so conflicted about this film.
The quirkiness of it appeals to me, and it is great that Summer recognizes that the greatest Beatles song ever recorded in "Octopus Garden", which most people overlook.
And Chloe Grace Moretz has a supporting role, which instantly boosts it. But then there is my love-hate relationship with Zooey Deschanel. I hate her popularity, and I hate her character here. But that is more about me than the film. So it is an internal conflict in watching this -- do I enjoy the good parts and ignore the bad parts, or just go ahead and hate the whole thing? It's easy to simply call Marc Webb's " Days of Summer" a romantic comedy. In reality, this focus on an on-again off-again relationship addresses the issue of expectations vs reality.
The protagonist is not any sort of role model in his hope of what sort of person his love interest is. The movie makes clear that, yes, sometimes you will have your heart broken. The non-linear storytelling creates a surreal feeling. While there's the occasional cliched scene, the outstanding performances from Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel more than make up for that as do the references to Ringo Starr.
I recommend the movie. A fine antidote to the treacly rom-coms that we often see. I heard quite a lot about this film at the time of its release, many sources saying that it was something to be watched, but I had no idea about the concept, so I was very intrigued while viewing it. Tom trained as an architect, but works making greeting cards, and Summer was the new assistant to his boss, and it was Tom's friend and co-worker McKenzie Geoffrey Arend who helped set them up and start dating.
Over the next few months they got closer, but obviously the film being so mixed with ordering of their love there are the moments that show how they started breaking apart as well. Summer did not originally believe that true love existed, and Tom fell over heels for her, and after just over two hundred days together their first argument comes from a bout of jealousy. They do eventually break up, Tom finds it hard to take and has depression, and Summer quits her job to move on, but they see each other again at a co-worker's wedding, and she is surprised to catch the bouquet.
They start to become friends again, but he is devastated to see that she is wearing an engagement ring, and after a long bout of deeper depression, scoffing on junk food and alcoholism, he has an outburst at work, and quits.
A long time passes, and Tom and Summer see each other again at his favourite spot on the park bench, and they really talk things through, they make up with each other before going their separate ways. So in the end Summer did find true love, just with someone else, even though she did have a lovely relationship with Tom, and he meanwhile twelve days later finds a new girl to ask on a date, her name is Autumn Minka Kelly. Gordon-Levitt is a good looking likable guy, and Deschanel is as usual is beautiful, kooky and lovable, you could think of this film as a faster paced and softer Pulp Fiction or Memento with this style of editing, it does make for some interesting scenes, it may confuse you a little bit, but actually doing it the regular order would be a bit boring, so all in all it is a good fun and nice alternative romantic comedy.
Very good! Tweekums 12 March Protagonist Tom works for a greeting cards company and when the boss's new assistant, Summer Finn, walks through the door he is instantly smitten.
We know they will get together as the narrative constantly switches between the beginning of relationship and a time a year later when it is falling apart.
Before he even invites her out she has told him that she does not believe in love and doesn't like labels like girlfriend and boyfriend but still he ends up inviting her out and things start off well.
When she decides to finish things he does not take it well; he loses his happy go lucky attitude and ultimately walks out of his job as he comes to believe he is writing nothing but meaningless platitudes. Tom and Summer's relationship was believable from the start where he was in a state of ecstasy to the end where he was devastated and couldn't get over her.
There are plenty of good laughs and one which is as disgusting as it is funny Over all this is worth watching if you want to see a different take on the romance genre. Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber penned this rather basic screenplay about a young man in the greeting-card creation business who falls for his boss's new assistant, a pretty, independent girl who believes love is just a fantasy.
The couple meet, get to know one another, date, and part in the course of five-hundred days, while director Marc Webb zips us through different stages of their relationship in a semi-random manner which Webb probably intended as a fresh way to define the peaks and valleys of modern romance.
Age-appropriate viewers, tired of Woody Allen or Nora Ephron-penned romantic comedy-dramas, will no doubt see traces of themselves portrayed earnestly here, yet the film is hardly inventive. The college-rock soundtrack is flavorful, and is usually around to pick up the slack, yet Neustadter and Weber fall back on some very derivative character-driven scenes and dialogue while the proviso that leading lady Zooey Deschanel prefers being alone to dating is a lazy out, rendered inconsequential by the finale.
The picture looks good and sounds good, though it is itself a fairy tale--one topped with a happy bow. Gullible teenagers are its target audience. Not your usual love story, it is very well told and interesting.
And truthful. TxMike 29 December Tom refuses to understand what Summer wants and expects from their relationship, effectively becoming the antagonist of his own story. The theory via TVOvermind suggests that Tom is the villain since he built Summer up in his mind and became obsessed with the idea of her rather than acknowledge reality.
Tom hears this, but he still expects her to change and eventually fall in love with him. Had Summer loved Tom back and stepped up to be his girlfriend, their story would not have gone downhill, surely—but why should she have? No one is compelled to reciprocate feelings and affections in real life, and audiences realize this, finally. It may also not be fair to say that Tom is the real villain—it was his expectations.
Why didn't they work out? Summer : What always happens. Summer : Well, you know, I guess it's 'cause I was sitting in a deli and reading Dorian Gray and a guy comes up to me and asks me about it and Tom : Yeah.
Summer : So, what if I'd gone to the movies? What if I had gone somewhere else for lunch? What if I'd gotten there 10 minutes later? It was, it was meant to be. I just kept thinking Tom was right. Tom : No. Summer : Yeah, I did.
Summer : I did. It just wasn't me that you were right about. Tom : What happens if you fall in love? Summer : Well, you don't believe that, do you? Tom : It's love. It's not Santa Claus. Narrator : As he listened, Tom began to realize that these stories weren't routinely told. These were stories one had to earn. He could feel the wall coming down.
He wondered if anyone else had made it this far. Which is why the next six words changed everything. Summer : I've never told anybody that before. Tom : I guess I'm not just anybody. Tom : Look, we don't have to put a label on it. That's fine. I get it. But, you know, I just I need some consistency. Summer : I know. Tom : I need to know that you're not gonna wake up in the morning and feel differently. Summer : And I can't give you that. Nobody can.
Summer : It just wasn't me that you were right about. Summer : All we ever do is argue! Tom : That is bullshit! Summer : I named my cat after Springsteen. Tom : No kidding. What was his name? Summer : Bruce. Tom : Oh That makes sense.
Tom : That was actually my nickname in college. They called me "Perfectly Adequate" Hansen. Summer : They used to call me "Anal Girl". Summer : I was very neat and organized. Summer : We're just fr Tom : [Interrupting] No! Don't pull that with me!
This is not how you treat your friend! Kissing in the copy room? Holding hands in IKEA? Shower sex? Come on! Friends my balls! Tom : Nobody loves Ringo Starr. Summer : That's what I love about him.
Partygoer : So Tom, what is it that you do? Tom : I uh, I write greeting cards. Summer : Tom could be a really great architect if he wanted to be. Partygoer : That's unusual, I mean, what made you go from one to the other? Tom : I guess I just figured, why make something disposable like a building when you can make something that lasts forever, like a greeting card.
Summer : There's no such thing as love, it's fantasy Summer : We've been like Sid and Nancy for months now. Summer : No, I'm Sid. Tom : Oh, so I'm Nancy Summer : Let's just eat and we'll talk about it later. Mmm, that is good, I'm really glad we did this.
I love these pancakes Summer : Tom, don't go! You're still my best friend! Summer : I like being on my own. Relationships are messy and people's feelings get hurt. Who needs it? We're young.
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