500 Days of Summer

It's been awhile since I've watch a romantic comedy this good and appealing again. Nowadays few films capture the sensation of falling in love as well as this movie does.As you all know,Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Tom,a wannabe architect who falls in love with Summer (Zooey Deschanel) at the Los Angeles greeting card production company where both work. It’s flawlessly played romantic comedy, endlessly inventive, and if you’ve ever experienced the darker side of young love,incredibly true to life without coming off as cliched or patronizing. Kudos to director Marc Webb and writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for bringing all sorts of cinematic tricks to a genre that normally has little use for them.

Reasons why this movie will eventually end up as the most original date movie of the year:
-The movie kicks off with the omniscient narrator saying,"This is a story of boy meets girl, but you should know upfront, this is not a love story". And so the tension begins.
 
-Love the achronological narrative and contrast the highs and lows of the hero's infatuation for wild comic effect
in which intertitles assigning action to specific points on a 500 day timeline

-Love the chemistry between Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Lookout) and everyone’s favorite cute, quasi-bohemian crush, Zooey Deschanel, in the role of Summer.  Tom Hanssen registers every ounce of hope, joy and angst beneath his geeky demeanour and

-Love the scene when Tom does not take the break up well and Tom's friends call his younger sister, Rachel to calm him down. Wishing I had this kid sister who will tell me to quit being a pussy.

-The reenactment of the famous “but do you like me like me” scene from The Wonder Years at the only karaoke bar. Summer and Tom grow closer after McKenzie slips that Tom is attracted to Summer.



- The spontaneous production number, where strangers on the street fall into 
line with the dancing hero after  his first night of romance with Summer. Probably not the first time it happens in a movie but the execution has  impeccable timing that they feel fresh.

-When they watch the movie Vagiant "Part Vampire Part Giant", their escapades in IKEA and shower sex after watching the adult movie "Sweet and Shower".

-The shoutout loud of "penis!" in the park.


-The clever splitscreen to show the expectation vs. the reality when Tom tries to woo Summer back.

-And of course the fantastic soundtracks that include Patrick Swayze’s "She’s Like the Wind", Hero by "Regina Spektor", The Smiths "There is a Light that Never Goes Out" and "Please,Please,Please Let Me Get What I Want".

Love is indeed gloriously unpredictable, effortlessly fresh and, at its best, leaves you high as a kite.