500 Days of Summer

Through time we all have seen love stories that have a happy ending were the two love bird are together happily ever after, boom, the end. But what there’s a love story that didn’t have a happy ending and was true to real life and the feelings we all face during our times of growing up. In Marc Webb’s film 500 Days of Summer, is a love story that really isn’t a love story. This film deals with first love, losing that first love and moving on with your life.

            When Tom (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) meets Summer (played by Zooey Deschanel), he thinks he has met his match. When they start to spend time together, Tom feelings start getting stronger for Summer even though she has made it clear that she doesn’t want a relationship. But through time it’s to turn into one that Summer denies but Tom argues with her that they are together because of the things they do together and the way he feels about her.

            When Summer breaks up with Tom, he is heartbroken and is in a deep depression for some time. His friends, McKenzie and Paul (played by Geoffrey Arend and Matthew Gray Gubler) try to help him break the spell of depression over his break up, even having Tom’s sister Rachel (played by Chloe Grace Moretz) tries to help get over Summer and move on with his life. But still Tom is under the spell of love and doesn’t want to forget about Summer.

            When Summer has moved on with her life, Tom is still heartbroken but then he finally quits his job at the card company and starts to focus on his dream of being an architect and that helps him with moving on with his life and finally forgetting about Summer. Even though, Summer has come back into his life here and there but, in the end it doesn’t faze him as much as had during the past. In the end, Tom finally moves on and maybe even meets someone.

            500 Days of Summer is a film that a lot of people can relate too.  We all have been through heart break, moving on from that heart break and being able to find our true selves during the times of heart break. With probably one the best edited films we have seen in a long time, 500 Days of Summer takes on a journey through laughter, tears and even hope for the upcoming future.