(500) Days of Summer was a decent film. I wasn't sure what to expect. I felt like it was marketed as an indie but that wasn't really the case. I guess it had the "I'm not mainstream hollywood" feel, as some scenes had a very Amelie-ish air to it.
I really liked Joseph Gordon-Levitt in this movie, as he plays a range of different emotions and really being the star of the movie. Meanwhile, I didn't care much for the character Zooey Deschanel played until the very end.
OK, so basically the story is this: Boy (Tom) and girl (Summer) meet, he falls in love while she doesn't. They have fun and stuff but eventually they break up, in the sense that they don't hang out any more because they are not dating anyway. He sits around for half of the film moping around remembering all the times they had together while getting relationship advice from his 2 best friends and his little sister.
The ending is not surprising, although like any indie movie, it's not really what you want or secretly expect. The film starts out by saying it wasn't a love story, and it isn't. It's a story about moving on.
Overall, the acting was pretty good and it accurately portrays the feeling of love, or something like it.
The underlying message is to follow your dreams, even though it may be a difficult journey, and I wasn't sure how to cope with that... Whether to laugh at the typicality of the underlying message of hope, or whether to feel oddly depressed at the fact that it takes a lot of work to be happy.
I don't think I will be seeing this movie any time soon, but that doesn't mean it wasn't good.
I would give it a 7/10 for its ingenuity and ability to be popular without the feel good element.
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