500 Days Might Have Started Their Own Genre...

Rating: 9/10 (14 January 2010)

I must first start off by saying that 500 days has one of the BEST soundtracks for a movie. Aren't you tired of all the movies these days with redundant music scores? The first thing I did after watching this, was go straight to research every single track on this movie. Regina Spektor and The Smith's made this piece of work complete. The Music is in perfect sync with every single scene! That is a very hard thing to achieve--to have perfect sound match the scene.
The scene with Summer's rooftop party literally put daggers through my heart with Regina Spektor's "Hero" . You have to be heartless to watch that scene with out feeling like you are being dumped yourself.
The Non-Linear Narrative style Webb and team used was a nice twist to see in a movie, cutting in and out from different days and so forth.
The 1960's/modern-esque fashion is great to see, cast members wearing basic beige, navy, brown etc. And the music also matched the fashion very well too...Indie Rock songs with semi-formal/modern-esque/60's clothes is a great mix.
**Now to the cutting edge** Although they say "this is not a love story" It IS indeed a love story. I think the filmmakers added that bit in there to give us some foreshadowing about how Tom became bitter through-out the movie.
The cinematography was great, The camera's used were very smooth...you can tell smooth camera movement when your eyes DON'T jump all over the place...but smoothly transitioning is key..especially so you don't give your audience a headache like "paranormal activity" Deschanel and Gordon-Levitt were perfect for this movie as well, the music and fashion also fuse to their natural poise and personality...maybe a little bit more to Zooey.
If I had to nit pick on something it would be the little sister who acts like an older person, that whole role just seemed awkward and forced.