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500 Days of Summer

reviewed by pivic

When his girlfriend, Summer (Zooey Deschanel), unceremoniously dumps him, greeting-card copywriter and hopeless romantic Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) begins sifting through the year-plus ...
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pivic
11/05/2009

500 Days of Summer 4

A little spoiler alert is in place here, so read on only if you dare.

I really liked this film. The dialogue felt real, as did the characters. The script contains a lot of pretentious and impressive twists that all feel real. The film made me feel that the clichés and the little things that made the characters happy and sad are what mattered. That everyday feeling, together with the constant anachronistic jumping in time and the "supernatural" sequences (e.g. where Tom turns a walk to work into a musical daydream with drawn birds and a big band), the brilliant soundtrack (with Morrissey regalia to boot, imagine that) and a lot of desire turned this film into a great experience for me. Very cute, calm, American (I feel, as a non-American) and recommendable.

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Lena commented 21 days ago.
(Edited 21 days ago)
Interesting...I've heard a few comments about this film that made it sound a little too cutesy for me, but your taste is stellar, so perhaps I'll give it a shot.

pivic commented 21 days ago.
Thanks! It's cutesy, but the indie aspect keeps it real. Not to mention there's more life to the script than a willingness to please here, which I think is vital. It's nice. And probably funnier than I make it out to be.
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