500 Days of Summer by Marc Webb

Category: English

I am a little befuddled here as to what to say, this film has a lot of potential. It is definitely an interesting film to watch but there's something amiss...

500 days of summer follows the life of Joseph-Gordon Levitt's character who falls in love with Zooey Deschanel's character. Obviously one of them has committment problems and the other doesn't. While on the surface it's a typical "rom-com" as they call it, the only real saving grace has to be the editing and the jumping back and forth in time. The 500 days that Levitt's character knows Deschanel's character are more or less covered in a what appears to be non-linear format. Yet we are very clear about where their love started for each other and while you recollect the movie in your mind you recollect it as a liner narrative.

The acting is plastic at best, neither of them can act aside from looking pretty. Deschanel's character in particular is starved of any emotions to the point that one believes she is deliberately causing all that harm to the one she says she loves. Levitt - well he looks pretty like a school boy but what good is that?

Recommendation level: 2/5 I didn't think I'd be let down by the movie but I was and so there's nothing really to harp about it - barring a little slick editing. Also mister writer when Art is used as a device of revenge it ceases to be art anymore (ref: Any resemblance to people living or dead is purely accidental ... Especially you, Jenny Beckman ... Bitch - at the start of the film).