500 Days of Summer Review

Boy meets girl. Boy falls for girl because she says she likes The Smiths, "There is a Light That Never Goes Out." Every CapSwell love story fantasy begins... If a woman came up to me right now and told me she liked the Smiths I would marry her. I have no doubt of that fact. Does that make me a romantic? After I saw this movie I spent the day thinking about what else a woman could say to hook me. "I Love Dawn Patrols" "Hand me my Patagonia MLC" "I was on the Star Ferry going to Hong Kong Island" "I love kalbi or chicken katsu plate lunch" Back to the movie.

500 Days shows us how easily we can fall for anyone that likes some of the same hipster stuff as you. It is not a basis for a relationship and frankly you would be dating yourself which is narcassisctic and weird. Hipsters, Zooey Deschanel was great in this movie as was Joesph Gordon-Leavitt was excellent. 500 Days of Summer reminds you of what it is like to fall in love and experience someone new and how the important, "I Have Never Told Anyone That" line cements a relationship. It reminds you of all the great times one has when they are in love. It's also not a linear movie which helps to avoid a RomCom's typical story line but all the timeline elements are still there. You all know that I think every movie is a love story, it just that in real love story movies I want everything to work out perfectly.

With this movie I was too into the soundtrack. The Smiths, The Clash, a Belle and Sebastian quote if the movie played a Connells song I would have lost it.

500 Days was an easy to watch and to like, as long as you are not dead inside, but I am still trying to figure out if I liked the movie or did I like the fact that the opening scene from the movie trailer has been a fantasy of mine since 7th grade. It might be too hipster for all people. This movie allowed by 7th grade self to feel happy for 93 minutes.