*spoiler alert homiesi just got back from seeing 500 days of summer. and while the rational, slightly feminist side of me enjoyed it and thought it had a lot of good messages, the corny, loves a good rom-com following it's formulaic plot, side, was highly dissappointed. hurt might actually be a better word. i literally felt like zooey deschanel was breaking up with me. i was so emotionally in tune with that movie. i just wanted them to be together! but beyond that, there were several other things of note:
1. summer moves on pretty friggin fast. and gets engaged pretty friggin fast. 500 days is like, a year and a half. and she got married in that time? in like two or three months? jesus. that's crazy shit.
2. if joseph gorden-levitt wasn't so good-looking, i would have totally hated him. so emotional! so cheesey! sounds like a seventh grade girl! or some stupid kid who's memorized lines from sitcoms and is just saying them when he feels appropriate! and the way he talked about music? seriously. if he wasn't so friggin handsome, he couldn't say shit like that. he would just sound lame. and there would be no adorableness to balance it out. the more i think about it, if i was summer i would have broken up with him too.
3. i enjoyed the general message that you should learn from you relationships, even if they don't end up 'happily ever after' or in the way you envisioned. very important and not seen in enough movies.
seeing a movie with an independent woman on display also happens to coincendentally coincide with my recent obsession with the song 'independent women' by destiny's child. funny.
1) i love beyonce, destineys child, and independent women.
ReplyDelete2) i pretty much agreed with your analysis. except im still not sure whether i liked summer... im pretty sure i dont, just because I feel like she knew she was leading him on. and something about the way she tried to act naive and then went against everything she said she believed in over the course of two months kinda bothered me.
3) i LOVED the soundtrack. and i bought chalkboard paint for my room.
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ReplyDeletei hated summer. she knew from the beginning that she was going to break up with him, but she kept stringing him along. it was the little things in the movie that made me love it. the dance in the park, the pixies karaoke, the IKEA scene. while he may have been clingy and needy and emotional, he was an adorable character and i want him to date me minus the girly stuff.
ReplyDeleteIN OTHER NEWS DID YOU HAVE THE TRAILER FOR ADAM?!!?! SOOO CUTE. WANT TO SEE IT. OH MY GOD.
I was glad that Summer taught him how to not be a whiny little loser. I liked him, and his depression was at times funny, but he was creepy in love with her. Good for you, girl, get away, get away!
ReplyDeleteI love "Independent Women!" SPEAKING OF, this summer I found a great song on my ipod from some downloading spree I'd had on esnips called "I Don't Need You To" all about being a strong woman. So after I discovered it and listened to it like 20 times, I sang it to my cabin of 13 year olds like every Friday night. I think you'd like it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzR1RAOx4og (there is also a gospel choir in it. which as you know, makes everything better.)
Corrie: I also want to see Adam! It looks very cute. As does Hugh Dancy...