(500) days of summer

The good thing about going into a movie blind is that you will be pleasantly (or horribly) surprised of how it will turn out.

I expected 500 days of summer to be a movie to be about some time frame during summer months. As it turns out it is about Summer, the female protagonist in the story.

I am a self confessed sucker for romantic comedies. Jennifer Aniston's, Hugh Grant's, Sandra Bullock's... seen it all. So a movie with Zooey Deschanel, the ultimate romantic comedy female sidekick, and cobra commander Joseph Gordon Levitt (also of 10 things I hate about you, see I told you), did not make me think twice about opening the torrent file.

Told in a non-linear style, the movie sets its sight on young lovers who would come to terms on their relationship's status, direction and identity. This eventually leads to them parting ways and from there, the story takes in full view of one of the lover's misery, coping, and acceptance of the trials and tribulations of every lover's glorification of destiny, true love and all the other myths that comes with it.

While the movie's sole fault might be repetitive cliches on the broad and over indulged subject of true love, the message comes across that people might just be wrong about the right one for them. This movie just all the more makes each of us feel silly that once in our lives we tried to let our emotions get the better of us. We allowed our skewed feelings feel so right that it ruined eveything in us..

All in all it is good to find a romantic flick that doesn't scream cheesy, or another Jennifer Aniston vehicle whose tires are all but worn, or formulaic approach to a genre which has been abused more than Megan Fox's hot bod in my imaginations. I rank this up with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Love Actually as some of the better romantic comedies of the past years. A film to watch.