Greetings blog. My first review is going to be on 500 days of summer which i went to see tonight (thumbs up for orange wednesday's) and my overall opinion is looove. Before i venture in to the unknown i would like to point out that i am not going embarass myself or make anyone cringe by trying to be technical and launch in to camera aspects and such that i quite frankly have NO clue about (yet) so bare with me as i ramble on about what i thought made this a really cool film!
First of all I really liked the fact it wasn't a typical 'hollywood ending' ie. they fall in love and live happily ever after making 10 pretty babies because when sometimes thats exactly what one needs, it gets a bit depressing on these rainly glasgow evenings. Especially when I start to expect it to happen in my everyday life and when it doesn't im quite frankly disgusted. Horrified even. I swear i dont compare every boy to Edward Cullen and secretly hope he is a vampire...no... but anyway.
I was intrigued with the first few minutes of the film as the following message appeared on screen "Any resemblance to people living or dead is purely accidental ... Especially Jenny Beckman ... Bitch" This got me laughing as i realised this was one scorned writer and one sorry Jenny. When i got home and hit Google, i was interested to discover that infact the writer Scott Neustadter based the movie on a previous love experience where he fell "crazily, madly, hopelessly in love" with a girl who "returned his kisses but not his ardor." With this i realised why i enjoyed the ending so much as it was based on real experiences and not fantasy dreams, which i found much more easy to relate to than Twilight. (Sadly.) I remember an article in this months Total Film magazine where one of director Greg Motolla's tips on Making a good film was 'Have lots of unsuccessful relationships', and 500 days of summer is definitely a result of that.
Another aspect of the film i enjoyed was the fact it doesn't run in the normal sequence of movies with a beggining, a middle and an end. I enjoyed how it started at the end, and told the story through various dates, jumping between time periods within the 500 days the 2 main characters were in a relationship, and thanks to Google (yes, again) i have discovered this is called a 'Nonlinear narrative.'
The actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel were greatly casted as they complimented each other nicely as they were dare i say it, very 'cute' together, giving a convincing performance. The sountrack was great and fitted the mood of the movie perfectly, especially the song 'sweet disposition' which features a lot throughout, and is another sweeet addition to my iTunes, score. There was artwork featured between 'dates' which added a cool edge to it and also established the characters passion and talent for art. (Tom, one of the 2 main characters is very good at graphics and a trained architect.)
To round off the movie, Tom may be heartbroken but he meets a girl in the last scene who he asks out on a date, after which he asks her name and she replies 'Autumn'. This was a hopeful ending for poor Tom and just enough as we didn't have to sit around and watch them get married and grow old and crumble with time. Overall, i thought 500 days of summer was a lovely movie on the reality of love and the idea of soul mates and fate, and would happily watch it again as it gives off a sense of honesty and realism which i feel we can all relate to on some level.
Anyway, enough babbling from me, i have officially mulled over this for long enough and its time to get some of that beauty sleep, over and out.
First of all I really liked the fact it wasn't a typical 'hollywood ending' ie. they fall in love and live happily ever after making 10 pretty babies because when sometimes thats exactly what one needs, it gets a bit depressing on these rainly glasgow evenings. Especially when I start to expect it to happen in my everyday life and when it doesn't im quite frankly disgusted. Horrified even. I swear i dont compare every boy to Edward Cullen and secretly hope he is a vampire...no... but anyway.
I was intrigued with the first few minutes of the film as the following message appeared on screen "Any resemblance to people living or dead is purely accidental ... Especially Jenny Beckman ... Bitch" This got me laughing as i realised this was one scorned writer and one sorry Jenny. When i got home and hit Google, i was interested to discover that infact the writer Scott Neustadter based the movie on a previous love experience where he fell "crazily, madly, hopelessly in love" with a girl who "returned his kisses but not his ardor." With this i realised why i enjoyed the ending so much as it was based on real experiences and not fantasy dreams, which i found much more easy to relate to than Twilight. (Sadly.) I remember an article in this months Total Film magazine where one of director Greg Motolla's tips on Making a good film was 'Have lots of unsuccessful relationships', and 500 days of summer is definitely a result of that.
Another aspect of the film i enjoyed was the fact it doesn't run in the normal sequence of movies with a beggining, a middle and an end. I enjoyed how it started at the end, and told the story through various dates, jumping between time periods within the 500 days the 2 main characters were in a relationship, and thanks to Google (yes, again) i have discovered this is called a 'Nonlinear narrative.'
The actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel were greatly casted as they complimented each other nicely as they were dare i say it, very 'cute' together, giving a convincing performance. The sountrack was great and fitted the mood of the movie perfectly, especially the song 'sweet disposition' which features a lot throughout, and is another sweeet addition to my iTunes, score. There was artwork featured between 'dates' which added a cool edge to it and also established the characters passion and talent for art. (Tom, one of the 2 main characters is very good at graphics and a trained architect.)
To round off the movie, Tom may be heartbroken but he meets a girl in the last scene who he asks out on a date, after which he asks her name and she replies 'Autumn'. This was a hopeful ending for poor Tom and just enough as we didn't have to sit around and watch them get married and grow old and crumble with time. Overall, i thought 500 days of summer was a lovely movie on the reality of love and the idea of soul mates and fate, and would happily watch it again as it gives off a sense of honesty and realism which i feel we can all relate to on some level.
Anyway, enough babbling from me, i have officially mulled over this for long enough and its time to get some of that beauty sleep, over and out.
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