Re: New Movie Reviews **NO SPOILERS**
I really should spend my time on our project at work. But my motor mouth neighbor (the guy who giggles like a Twilight schoolgirl) is being more annoying than usual. So...thought I'd take time away from my work a second...
(500) Days of Summer- In this thoroughly frugal year where I've rarely gone to the movies and instead opted to buy DVDs, I've listed a lot of non-English movies in this thread. But here is one that I keep reading glowing reviews for and anticipated on DVD for a while, almost regretting not seeing it in theaters.
(500) Days of Summer is an (un)romantic comedy about Tom Hensen, a greeting card writer who believes that he will never truly be happy until he met "the One". His boss has a new assistant, the distant, pragmatic Summer Finn. The story begins with Tom Hensen at his friend's house breaking dishes, moping after being dumped by Summer. His friends ask Tom to tell them what happened and the movie follows the course of Tom and Summer's failed relationship in a non-linear manner. When the movie is recounting the early days of Tom and Summer, there is a nagging suspicion that it is being told through rose colored glass.
The non-linear storytelling could've been used as little more than a cheap gimmick. Instead, it used to compare and contrast scenes of exhilaration and the bliss of being in love with later times of disillusionment and resentment. There are a lot of inventive and creative touches in the movie, including a cameo of a certain famous actor from his bygone days. Since the audience knows, from the onset, that Tom and Summer are not going to work out, it's kind of interesting to watch the main character look for all the insignificant details why he and Summer are perfect for each other while the audience looks for all the damning evidence that he's just wasting his time.
I really should spend my time on our project at work. But my motor mouth neighbor (the guy who giggles like a Twilight schoolgirl) is being more annoying than usual. So...thought I'd take time away from my work a second...
(500) Days of Summer- In this thoroughly frugal year where I've rarely gone to the movies and instead opted to buy DVDs, I've listed a lot of non-English movies in this thread. But here is one that I keep reading glowing reviews for and anticipated on DVD for a while, almost regretting not seeing it in theaters.
(500) Days of Summer is an (un)romantic comedy about Tom Hensen, a greeting card writer who believes that he will never truly be happy until he met "the One". His boss has a new assistant, the distant, pragmatic Summer Finn. The story begins with Tom Hensen at his friend's house breaking dishes, moping after being dumped by Summer. His friends ask Tom to tell them what happened and the movie follows the course of Tom and Summer's failed relationship in a non-linear manner. When the movie is recounting the early days of Tom and Summer, there is a nagging suspicion that it is being told through rose colored glass.
The non-linear storytelling could've been used as little more than a cheap gimmick. Instead, it used to compare and contrast scenes of exhilaration and the bliss of being in love with later times of disillusionment and resentment. There are a lot of inventive and creative touches in the movie, including a cameo of a certain famous actor from his bygone days. Since the audience knows, from the onset, that Tom and Summer are not going to work out, it's kind of interesting to watch the main character look for all the insignificant details why he and Summer are perfect for each other while the audience looks for all the damning evidence that he's just wasting his time.
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