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(500) Days of Summer is a 2009 independent
Romantic Comedy starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel.
Tom Hansen works as a writer for a greeting-card company; Summer Finn is a quirky young woman hired as his boss's assistant. Tom, a hopeless romantic, immediately falls for her; Summer doesn't believe in true love, and isn't looking for a relationship. They quickly become more than just friends, but while Summer doesn't consider their affair to be serious, Tom believes she's "the one", and wants something more. The film takes a look at their quasi-relationship from Tom's perspective, numbering the days and events that lead to its buildup and eventual downfall.
Directed by Marc Webb, the film has been praised by critics for eschewing romantic comedy clichés—instead it realistically portrays the highs and lows (mostly lows) of a modern relationship and the fractured in which way we remember them.
Penis.
This film contains examples of:
- Anachronic Order: The film begins on Day 488, jumping between days and events as Tom recalls them.
- Bi The Way: When recounting her past relationships, Summer off-handedly mentions a girl named "Charli" as though it's no big deal.
- Boy Meets Girl
- Crowd Song: The morning after Tom and Summer spend their first night together, Tom giddily struts down the streets of L.A., where he is joined by a crowd of dancers, a marching band, and animated birds, all set to Hall and Oates’ “You Make My Dreams”.
- Deconstruction: Deconstructs traditional "happily ever after" endings of most romantic comedies.
- Did Not Get The Girl
- Drowning My Sorrows: After Tom discovers that Summer’s marrying someone else.
- Downer Ending: Partially subverted, in that Summer marries another man, but she and Tom remain friends.
- Here We Go Again: Tom meets a new girl at a job interview. Her name? Autumn. Day 1.
- Hollywood California: Set in Los Angeles; Tom, having trained as an architect, takes Summer on a tour of his favorite architectural sites around the city.
- Love At First Sight: Tom’s feelings for Summer, although Summer seems to evoke this response from most men she meets.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Subverted in the fact that Summer doesn’t want a relationship.
- Oblivious To Love: Summer to Tom.
- Post Modernism: Plenty, including the nonlinear narrative, the spontaneous dance sequence, the onscreen count of the actual 500 days, and one scene which contrasts "Expectations" vs. "Reality" via split-screen.
- Pun Based Title
- Roses Are Red Violets Are Blue: (“Roses are red, violets are blue, Fuck you, whore”)
- Shout Out: Specifically, scenes from Persona, The Seventh Seal, and The Graduate.
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