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(500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb, 2009)
Oh Boy, this is a film I definitely recommend but I can't quite come up with a reason why I don't think it's better than I actually do. I believe that as it is, the film is funny, sad, easy to relate to and mostly satisfying, yet perhaps it just hits too close to home for me to give it higher marks, and that's not really like me at all. I will, however, acknowledge that none of the young women I helplessly pursued were as attractive as Zooey Deschanel, but at the time and to me, they were even more beautiful, so I just want to say that this "romance" where the female basically tells the male early on that it ain't happening yet they both invest something resembling 16 months in proving that fact, is truly-heartbreaking and totally honest at the same time. Been there, done that. Even so, this flick is full of good humor and exemplary filmmaking. I did enjoy the way the film cut back and forth to try to make its points. I also liked such techniques as when my erstwhile alter ego Joseph Gordon-Levitt experiences things by way of split screen at the same time from both the way he expected and the way things actually turned out. The film just rang true but at the same time it leaves things open-ended on who's to blame (if that's even the proper word) in why the couple didn't end up together. The Deschanel character implies that if she'd "felt" something stronger from the man, then she'd have gone along with it, but since he was so insecure and claimed to only want to be friends (what a liar!), that's what basically caused the romance to never go "all the way". Good film but I still feel a little empty each time I watch it.
Oh Boy, this is a film I definitely recommend but I can't quite come up with a reason why I don't think it's better than I actually do. I believe that as it is, the film is funny, sad, easy to relate to and mostly satisfying, yet perhaps it just hits too close to home for me to give it higher marks, and that's not really like me at all. I will, however, acknowledge that none of the young women I helplessly pursued were as attractive as Zooey Deschanel, but at the time and to me, they were even more beautiful, so I just want to say that this "romance" where the female basically tells the male early on that it ain't happening yet they both invest something resembling 16 months in proving that fact, is truly-heartbreaking and totally honest at the same time. Been there, done that. Even so, this flick is full of good humor and exemplary filmmaking. I did enjoy the way the film cut back and forth to try to make its points. I also liked such techniques as when my erstwhile alter ego Joseph Gordon-Levitt experiences things by way of split screen at the same time from both the way he expected and the way things actually turned out. The film just rang true but at the same time it leaves things open-ended on who's to blame (if that's even the proper word) in why the couple didn't end up together. The Deschanel character implies that if she'd "felt" something stronger from the man, then she'd have gone along with it, but since he was so insecure and claimed to only want to be friends (what a liar!), that's what basically caused the romance to never go "all the way". Good film but I still feel a little empty each time I watch it.