"500 Days of Summer" is a great look at relationships and the best romantic comedy of the decade!

Rating: Null/10 (12 August 2014)

Being in a relationship with someone you love can be one of the most exhilarating and stressful parts of life. The bond between two people is a relationship so unique and intriguing that cinema has been putting it out to us for years. In Marc Webb's delightful and truthful "500 Days of Summer" we see an almost unique but yet typical relationship between two ordinary people. Joseph-Gordon Levitt plays Tom, an average card-company employee who one day sees the girl of his dreams, Summer (Zoey Deschannel)and immediately falls in love and forms a relationship with her. The two experience times of joy and stress as they spend a time experiencing and sharing the world together. The writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H.Weber due a perfect job portraying what being in a committed relationship in your early years is like by showing all dynamics that are faced when being with someone. They use enough humor and drama for balancing the story and show different aspects of Tom and Summer's relationship to not make us completely irritated by hearing Tom and Summer repeat the same parts of a relationship, but rather have a diverse story that allows both characters to be put into different situations and show different sides of each other. "500 Days of Summer" is a film that can help anyone in a struggling relationship, because there is something everyone who has ever dated anybody can relate to from first meeting someone, to breaking up and to having the time of your life in the company of someone beautiful. Joseph-Gordon Levitt's character of Tom is one of the most relatable and likable characters you'll ever experience and Levitt nails every characteristic of playing such a sweet role. Tom will make you feel for him in every heartfelt moment. However, the question that can be raised is whether you'll like Summer. Tom being the lead shows what it's like being in a relationship with someone, but we never really see what Summer's perspective is, which is great because she isn't a likable character and isn't supposed to be focused on. With her tough personality, we get to see Tom flow through a relationship and get his perspective of his situation, allowing us to appreciate his wonderful character. "500 Days of Summer" is a rom-com that doesn't try to hard or do anything typical when it comes to this genre. Instead, it is a well-made and moving masterpiece that is a reflection of what being in a relationship is like and is a cinematic poem.