You have to go through summer to get to autumn.

Rating: 8/10 (29 September 2016)

You have to go through summer to get to autumn. As narrated at the start of this film this is not a love story, more like a what you think love is might not be story.
What I enjoyed about this film is how it pulls back the bland layers left by hundreds of previous attempts to capture what love is about and instead shows us how the journey unfolds and how we can end up in completely different destination than we imagined.
From the beginning I expected a harsh cautionary tale of love but what really surprised me and to be honest what made the film was the ending. Up until then it was following well trodden paths of the love can be great but also hurt scenario which we as humans know all too well, but I feel like the ending delivered a uplifting and positive message in what was an otherwise darker film.
We followed the film as viewers expecting Tom to go through hard times but eventually he and Summer would realise they're perfect for each other and ride off into the sunset holding hands living happily ever after, However very reminiscent of the film they mentioned 'The Graduate' this was not the case.
Instead we see how your belief system can be rocked and everything you thought you knew about love can completely change. Like Tom we all may never understand why Summer did the things she did or why she behaved in such a manor but for Tom all of that is a now just a simple footnote on how he reached his actual true love... Autumn.
Overall a film that follows others in exposing the darker side to love, but completely side swipes us with a happy ending and leaves us with a smile on our face and content to know that although we may lose faith, Love can reach us at any moment.