500 days of summer

About an hour ago I watched 500 days of summer and without sounding too cliche I loved it. From the moment it opened speaking about how Tom Hanson lived to be in love, I knew I was stolen away. I've reached the point with many movies that I can tell you the course of the character from the outset. I'm not sure if this is because I've read a lot of English novels and studied these plot lines but it was truly a GOOD movie. I could sit here and praise how "awesome" it was and how "hot" Joseph Gordon Levitt is but to be honest what I loved the most was how depressing it was. Here is this man who has lived his entire existence believing that there is one person for him and he knows it as soon as he sees them. He believes with all of his being that he lives to be in love. Meanwhile, he holds this mediocre job, he isn't even pursuing his dreams and he thinks that he found the one girl he has been waiting for. What I found so enlightening was that it isn't until he has had his heart ripped out, and he goes through a dark, unhappy period of his life that he recognizes he has to make himself happier. Love won't make him happier if he isn't happy himself. He pursues his dream, his career choice and through this he meets a woman who has already seen him before at one of his favourite places.

With this being said, a message at the end of the movie is that nothing is meant to be. There is no specific path that we need to travel. Life really is just one big coincidence. You have no control over almost everything in life and after "500 days of summer" Tom figures this out. I love the message and the meaning behind this movie. When he quits his job and says that greeting cards, media, and pop music ruin love, I want to hug him. There is too much truth within the sentence that people do not know how to speak their feelings. Overall, I would recommend this movie to anyone. I doubt many people who like it, or enjoy its significance but it's one of those movies you need to be able to think about it. There is no Michael Bay explosions or Guillermo Del Toro artsy devices, but plain simple people. Simple people with problems that we all face in our lives yet can't seem to find a connection to this type of movie. I can't believe it has taken me this long to see 500 days of summer but I'm glad I finally did. I feel somewhat enlightened amongst the banter of the everyday.