500 Days of Summer Review

500 days of Summer  is a romantic comedy story of an aspiring architect but work as a writer in a greeting card company, Tom Hangen who thinks that he finally found his true love.  Tom is a hopeless romantic, a firm believer in love, fate and destiny. Upon meeting his boss’s new and attractive secretary, Summer Finn, Tom believes that he has already found his soulmates. Unfortunately for Tom, Summer doesn’t believe in true love and wanted to keep their relationship casual. Summer’s refusal to believe in true love didn’t stop Tom from continue to pursue her. However Tom’s persistence hardwork is for naught. Tom enters into deep depression after they broke up and become even more devastated after knowing that Summer got engaged to someone else. He quits his job and decides to apply for an architect job.

The moral value of this story is high expectation sometimes might results in depression.  For example, after discovering that he and Summer had shared many common interest,  Tom decides that Summer is his soulmate and the one he would marry. Despite Summer telling him that she was not interested in serious relationship, Tom believes that he can convince Summer that love is real. When their relationship ends, Tom become depressed and seemed to lose his will to live. He keeps thinking back to their 500 days together to try to figure out where things go wrong. In my opinion, when Summer said that she was not interested in serious relationship, Tom should have prepared himself from the beginning to expect the worst. At least it might save him from further heartache.

I know this sounds weird but a character from 500 days of Summer that excites me the most is Paul, one of Tom’s best friends and acted by Matthew Gray Gubbler. Matthew Gray Gubbler is my favourite actor after Johnny Depp and Huge Law. The moment I saw him as Dr Spencer Reid, a born genius and young FBI agent in television series Criminal Mind, I’ve fallen in love with him since then. And I think Paul is a very interesting character, although none of his advices can heal Tom’s ailment. He is charming and not to mention sweet especially when he talks about his girlfriend, Aiden.

When I first I saw the scene at the beginning of the story where both leading characters were sitting on a bench overlooking the city holding hands, I expected that they will ended up together and live happily ever after like a common Hollywood rommance story. In first glimpse, they looked so perfect together, seemed so ideally matched and it was a bit shock when their relationship ends.  I think this movie is very unique and different from common romantic story, where both male and female leading characters marry and live happily ever after or one of them died or divorced and the story will end up either happy or sad ending, in this movie, both leading character broke up and each of them found their true love.

500 days of Summer is a story about heartache, heights and pitfalls in relationship, heartache and love.