(500) Days of Summer

(500 ) Days of Summer is an indie love story from the year 2009. It was written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber. The protagonists Tom and Summer are played by Joseph Gordon -Levitt and Zooey Deschanel.

Action

At a January 8 Tom Hansen meets Summer Finn, the new assistant of his boss. Tom studied architecture, but works as a greeting card designer in Los Angeles.

After a corporate karaoke night slips out Tom's work colleagues McKenzie that Tom is attracted by Summer. In the next few months Summer and Tom come closer. Summer tells him initially that they do not believe in " true love " and that they would have no real friend.

Tom shows Summer his favorite spot in Los Angeles. There is a park bench, which has a view of an arrangement of buildings he likes, even if they are surrounded by some car parks. A few weeks later, on a date, Tom involved in a scuffle, was for the sum of the trigger. This triggers their first quarrel.

On day 290 make Tom and Summer each end, after they have viewed the film The Graduate in the cinema, a film that means Tom very much. Tom cope with the separation is not good, and his friend calls his younger sister Rachel, to calm him down.

Summer quits her job at the greeting company and Tom's boss makes him aware that he really should make better maps of sad occasions during his depression.

Months later, Summer and Tom are invited to a wedding. They meet on the train, start talking and dancing together later. Summer even catches the thrown bridal bouquet. When they sit side by side, Summer invites him to a party at her apartment. Tom hoped that much of this invitation, but is ignored by Summer. After he sees Summer showing her engagement ring to a friend, he leaves the party.

Tom falls prey to a deep depression and leaves his apartment only to buy food and alcohol. After a few days he appears drunk on the job and announces. He takes the right to return to work as an architect, and begins to apply and interview advice.

On day 488, he meets Summer at his favorite place, the park bench where they talk about their relationship. He wants her marriage and her life all the best. When he is invited twelve days later in an architect's office for an interview, he meets a woman who is also waiting for the interview. Before he goes to the office, he asks her if she wants to go drink with him after coffee. When he asks her name, she responds Autumn ( autumn ').

The frequent jumps in the chronology of the relationship between Tom and Summer are introduced with short animations in which a tree in its various annual vegetation phases, as well as the number of the day on which the following action took place one sees. The expulsion stands symbolically for the beginning of the relationship and the emergence of the first feelings of Tom for Summer; the sheet case according to the end.

Awards

  • The film was nominated for the best film in the category Comedy / Musical at the Golden Globes 2010. Joseph Gordon -Levitt was also nominated for best actor in the category Comedy / Musical. Zooey Deschanel was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Actress.

Trivia

  • Spent on day 282/283, the day after Tom and Summer for the first time one night together looks at Tom the next morning in the window of a car and sees a mirror image Harrison Ford, in his role as Han Solo.
  • Dustin Hoffman has a cameo appearance, as a husband in a wedding. This alludes to the movie The Graduate, which is also mentioned in the prologue of the film.

Soundtrack

Criticism

"The film impresses with its good actors and careful, imaginative staging, the musical to insert cleverly uses the split screen the cinematic means, without these come to an end in itself. "

"One of the great achievements of the film, however, is that he knows how to keep the balance between drama and comedy, to accept without being superficial or destructive and pessimistic attitudes. [ ... ] Webb's management of people and the lightweight, unaufgesetzte and harmonious interaction of different stylistic elements give the film an unpretentious charm who knows how to involve the audience emotionally. "

2009 in film Screenplay Mason Novick Film score Rob Simonsen Regina Spektor The Smiths Doves (band) Mumm-Ra (band)
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