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So I'd wanted to see this movie since I saw the preview since it looked pretty good. It also looked like it wasn't going to be your standard-fare romance movie. And it wasn't. For starters, the directing was fantastic and the photography/cinematography was fantastic. The plot was entirely realistic, too. Here's what the movie was NOT:
1. Boy meets girl. (Often under unlikely or contrived situations.)
2. Boy and girl fall in love. (Often for no good reason -- not that that in particular is unrealistic.)
3. Manufactured plot device (usually contrived) forces boy and girl apart. Instead of simply figuring things out, they think they cannot be together anymore.
4. Another manufactured plot device brings them back together, no matter how contrived or unrealistic. In fact, boy and girl usually get back together for the most unrealistic reasons ever in a movie usually filled with unrealistic plot devices.
5. Everything works out and everybody is happy! Yay! Moral of the movie: love ALWAYS works out if you love somebody ENOUGH.
That's almost every other romance movie I've seen, which is okay but only works well with comedy, not drama so much. I don't want to give away too much, but (500) Days of Summer is finally a romance movie that is realistic but not too depressing. It's wonderfully written and directed, so go see it. If you can bother to see GI Joe or any other soon-to-be-forgotten summer movie, you can bother to see this one.
1. Boy meets girl. (Often under unlikely or contrived situations.)
2. Boy and girl fall in love. (Often for no good reason -- not that that in particular is unrealistic.)
3. Manufactured plot device (usually contrived) forces boy and girl apart. Instead of simply figuring things out, they think they cannot be together anymore.
4. Another manufactured plot device brings them back together, no matter how contrived or unrealistic. In fact, boy and girl usually get back together for the most unrealistic reasons ever in a movie usually filled with unrealistic plot devices.
5. Everything works out and everybody is happy! Yay! Moral of the movie: love ALWAYS works out if you love somebody ENOUGH.
That's almost every other romance movie I've seen, which is okay but only works well with comedy, not drama so much. I don't want to give away too much, but (500) Days of Summer is finally a romance movie that is realistic but not too depressing. It's wonderfully written and directed, so go see it. If you can bother to see GI Joe or any other soon-to-be-forgotten summer movie, you can bother to see this one.