(500) Days of Summer
*****WARNING: CONTAIN SPOILERS*****
Can't really say whether I love or hate this movie. It was...unexpected. It was not an ordinary Hollywood love story, instead, it's a story about a boy and a girl, it's a story about... how they are NOT meant to be together.
I loved the movie, yet I hated the movie at the same time. I love the movie because of its creative storytelling, because of its soundtrack (The Smiths!), because of the way it uses blue as Summer's color, because of the general tone of the movie, and because of Joseph Gordon-Levitt. (can't believe the little alien from "Third Rock from the Sun" is all grown up! :P) What I didn't love about the movie, is that it hits a little too close to home. If you have followed my blog for more than a few years... you would know that, I WAS Summer. I was the girl who had a guy who wanted to marry me, and I knew he was in love with me, yet I couldn't bring myself to tell him that sorry, you're not the one. I was the girl who broke his heart. It was a past that I don't like to revisit, yet there it was, staring right at me on the big screen. That last scene with the two main characters in the park, with her telling Tom how her husband just gave her that feeling that she never had with him, was just too much for me.
Besides all that, the movie was GREAT. But... after a whole movie's length of anticipation, of how the two main characters are supposed to be soulmates, turns out that everything's about how they're NOT soulmates, you just can't help to be disappointed in the end. In real life, you don't call that a journey about love, you call that a waste of time. :P
I think the "surprise" ending was a nice touch, otherwise it would've been such a downer movie for me. This is exactly why I never like to watch movies with sad endings. I don't go watch a movie for that sad and depressing feeling.
Did I regret watching this movie? Absolutely not. Will I watch this movie again? Probably not.
3 個人有話說:
ohh....didn't know your backstory, now i know why you have that comment about the movie~~
JGL is fantastic!! Love him!!! u need to watch Brick and the Lookout, both are not romantic comedy, but his performance were awesome~ (actually he was really good in the two queer indie films as well: Latter Days and Mysterious Skin)
I thought the ending was a bit surprise, cuz I kept thinking somehow they would be together again. But bf said, "huh? I think it was obvious they won't be together from the beginning wor..."
Err...
He also said, the movie tries too hard to be smart.
Um, if not for the ending, it would be a pretty suck movie.
"In real life, you don't call that a journey about love, you call that a waste of time." <--- how I see it is, if not for the "not-meant-to-be" guy, you wouldn't be as appreciative of the meant-to-be guy. It also shows, just because someone loves you very much, and you don't dislike that person, does mean he's the one.
Haha!
(But, when he really tried to think about it at the end, he and summer was never meant to be... it was just his own imagination!)
>if not for the "not-meant-to-be" guy, you wouldn't be as appreciative of the meant-to-be guy.
that is true. but to this day.. i still think the time i spent with my ex was a waste of my 青春﹐嗚嗚嗚嗚~~~~
i had no idea that they weren't going to be together either! arrrrrgh~~~~~~
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