The movie was out in 2009, so the movie's 6-year old now!
I've been wanting to watch the movie for a while now.
Today I had a half day off from work so I FINALLY watched the movie!
'500 Days of Summer' talks about a typical love between a man and a woman for 500 days.
Summer is an ordinary woman who just moved from Michigan to LA, and Summer meets Tom at work, another ordinary guy who happens to fall in love with Summer at first sight.
The movie shows a perspective of Tom throughout the movie. Maybe the the sequel in the perspective of Summer would be really interesting too! You've always gotta hear both sides of the story, right? I'm sure Summer would have things to say in her defense.
Tom seems like a good guy in the movie, while Summer's the bad one.
She suddenly tells Tom to break up with her without any understandable reasons.
Tom has hard time from the separation, believing that Summer is the one and only person for him.
The movie describes the 500 days of Tom being with Summer by going back and forth in time during the short relationship.
Summer doesn't want a "serious" relationship. They have casual sex and behave like a girlfriend and boyfriend to each other but Summer doesn't want to be called as "someone's something". So Tom keeps it that way. But he's confused, because he wants to be "Summer's boyfriend". However he never tells how he feels to Summer. He really should have done that - if he did, the ending of the story could have changed! While not telling Summer honestly about how he feels, he gets in fight with other guy who tries to buy Summer a drink at a pub and loses his temper to Summer sometimes.
I didn't hear what Summer had to say in the movie throughout the relationship, but if Tom was more upfront to Summer about his true feelings, things could have definitely changed. Tom never told Summer how much Summer meant to him, how eager he wanted to be Summer's special someone.
Summer never knew. She could only assume. If you only assume and think by yourself, your imagination can drive you to a whole different story-more likely a negative and inaccurate one. And so after all the imagination, Summer decides to end the relationship and finds another guy and gets married.
Tom finds a new girl at the job interview and Tom is gonna have another first day with another girl.
Two people nurtured from different environments for some 20 or 30 years are meant to have many differences. Maybe nobody is meant to be for each other. You have to constantly communicate to be a better fit for each other. In my opinion, 'communication' is the key. If you never tell and simply assume that another person will know, the other person will never know and you will lose the appropriate moment to talk about your true feelings. Your complaints toward another person would accumulate and you will become to think of ending the relationship. It's sometimes easier that way rather than enduring all the pain.
Every relationship's difficult, right?
'500 days of summer' is another love story that shows the natural phases of relationship.
The beginning of that rosy-colored glasses toward each other slowly turns into quarrels and fights. All the relationships are gonna be the same if you do not learn or change how you communicate your true feelings in the relationship.
Let your special someone know how you truly feel! If they care, they will try to understand and make the necessary changes to be a better person for you. Then we will be able to see Summer and Tom living their happily ever after!
