if you've just been dumped, watch this movie. it made me feel better.

Rating: 6/10 (2 April 2010)

I almost expected another sappy movie, but perhaps the low expectations got me quite pleased.
i'm sick of people telling each other "i will always love you," or the other usual sappy stuff like how both couples are all-out on each other. In this movie, it was pretty clear that Summer was unsure of relationships and the slippery subject of love.
i love how honest this movie is. There are just so, so many parallels between what happened to me recently and what happened in this movie. Even though there are drastic differences (duh) like how I'm a girl but totally understand Tom's feelings like, all throughout the movie, I think this movie is a great representation of something that apparently happens all the time.
I think that if I hadn't experienced what I did recently, I wouldn't have liked this movie nearly as much. or at least understood it. I desperately needed something to cheer me up. Alongside the great "capturing" of this event that happens all the time, I actually loved the delightful, silly little pieces of comic relief like how Tom ends up describing again Summer's appearance -- like how her birthmark changed from a heart to a cockroach and so on.
i also love how certain things got put into perspective. I have to agree. a lot of our conception of "love" comes from pop culture or what other people tell you about it, and we let ourselves believe it and a lot of the times we end up expecting way, way too much. songs, movies, books, television, greeting cards... I think one of my favorite scenes was where Tom spoke out right before he quit his job.
I suppose I got from this movie, as I had been drowning myself in self-pity, irritability, lethargy and utter hate, is how it spoke to me. I try to vent on other people but didn't get feedback that was quite as helpful as what I got from this movie -- it's rather difficult. talking to him obviously didn't help (i really shouldn't talk to him if i want to get over him), my peers might not have gone through the same thing, and everyone else really doesn't know the whole story, even if i try to tell them everything that happened as accurately as possible. it's still possible that my explanations can totally distort what really happened...
so really. except for the very ending, (opportunities don't come quite that easily or that quickly, honestly.) which I can see that I suppose they just wanted to end on a kind of happy note -- it's a great movie.