(500) Days of Summer

This has to be one of the smartest romance films that I have seen in quite a while.

It is a boy meets girl classic. We find Tom at a job that he does not enjoy when he finds the girl of his dreams, Summer. Over the next couple of hours, we follow Tom through the course of 500 days.

One of the aspects I really enjoyed about the movie was it was not set down in a chronological order. The audience skips around to love found and love lost and back to love found again. In this jumping, the continuity of the movie is not lost. The audience is never left baffled. As the audience jumps from scene to scene, the director was kind enough to offer a day that the viewer was visiting within the 500 days. For example, Tom meets Summer on day 1. On day 341, Summer has left. It was a great tool to let us see the happiness and the heartbreak of Tom in an almost simultaneous fashion.

I feel that the audience really wants Tom to become happy, to find love. When the film is watched, I also feel that the audience will be pleasantly satisfied.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has come a long way since 10 Things I Hate About You. He offers a dynamic role as the hopeless romantic. Zooey Deschanel is that enigmatic love interest in a persons life. She does a wonderful job at portraying the person who does not want to be pursued or conquered but wants to enjoy every aspect of her life.