![]() So many romantic films nowadays concern themselves with cute ideas take 'He's Just Not That Into You' or 'Serendipity' for example. When that bomb finally blows up in his face, it unfolds with powerful simplicity- no exposition or dialog, just two juxtaposed events that capture the heartache of reality hitting a person who sees a person through the filter of deep-seated emotions that were planted at too young an age. As events unfold out of sequence, you know all along Tom has fallen for a time bomb of a woman, and he can't even see the countdown. Anyone who has taken the lyrics of the Smiths too closely to heart, would be moved by the idea of the person they are crushing on sing to them: "To die by your side/is such a heavenly way to die." No wonder Tom soon falls head over heels for this girl. Director Marc Webb captures the feeling of innocent, naïve love expertly. Too bad for Tom Summer is stuck on friends-with-benefits mode. Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has his radar up for "the girl of his dreams" when he meets Summer (Zooey Deschanel). I haven't seen a romance this touching since I was the same type of single sad sack as depicted by the hero of (500) Days of Summer. ![]()
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