Too long a summer, only to introduce a brighter autumn.

Rating: 10/10 (18 May 2013)

I think love stories are underrated due to the fact that it's pretty predictable how they end up. The guy getting the girl at the end because it's their fate.
That doesn't happen with this one. At all. In fact, the viewer spends so much time around this girl the main character's such a fan for and then he doesn't get her. And that is easily understood by the title itself and it'd seem sad after so much plot development. But that is key!
The first time I watched this I didn't like it at all. They should have ended up together because that was just how it should have been. They liked the same songs, laughed at the same little things and were pretty happy portraying a recently-married couple in IKEA.
But I was also 13 back then and only now, watching it again, did I really get it. Because it does teach a valuable lesson. One that destiny is what we make of it, that we may countdown our lives and close our eyes and chose to ignore anything but that person we've chosen to love because we are so hooked to them, but that that is a product of our (mis)conception that it is made to be when it might not. And only when we leave that behind and accept it and change things for the better do we, by accident, find happiness where we least expect it. And that's what makes this such a memorable movie.
Aside from the aforementioned, it has great soundtrack - thumbs up! -, wonderful acting, smooth editing and, above all, a mesmerizing plot. I just wish it wouldn't have been just one-and-a-half-hour long but I guess that's just the way it is.