Top of the Line Coming of Age Film - 500 Days of Summer

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2018)

This is a very good film. The acting is superb, especially from Joseph Gordon Levit and Zooey Deschanel. The direction is very tight, and the script is the reason the film is rated an 8. It made me laugh out loud eight times. I have a rule of giving a star for each laugh, as long as the writing and acting are up to snuff. There are two hilarious sequences in the film. I loved the serious art house satires of Bergman films and the idolatry of The Graduate. I also like the sequence where several of the physical aspects of Summer that he liked, now annoy him to no end. That is so true in real life. What Joe needed to learn is that women are like buses; there'll be another one in fifteen minutes. Maybe not THE ONE, but at least a decent replacement chair for your broken lazyboy. This film is classified as a non- love story (or love story), but I see it more as a top of the line coming of age film. See it and enjoy, and better to have loved and lost etc.