Matthew Nichenko

(500) Days of Summer Film Critique

(500) Days of Summer could easily be classified as the perfect love story. The average person probably goes through five or so serious relationships through their life. And assuming you only get married to one person that means your heart will be broken four times, if you’re lucky.

The tagline for this movie is perfect. “This is not a love story. This is a story about love.” Most relationships never last, that is sad a fact of life we have now learned to live with. This movie has a very realistic look at love. Not one of those Leave It To Beaver fantasy worlds where everyone’s problems tie together in the allotted hour and thirty minute time span. (500) Days of Summer is about a boy who falls in love with a girl, which in the end doesn’t love him back. I don’t want to ruin the end of the story, but I can promise you that by the conclusion of the movie, life doesn’t seem as depressing as the tagline approaches.

This movie relates to me as the story intended to. After recently experiencing many of the boy’s pains; it was a relief to see someone survive a tough breakup and still have a reason to get up in the morning. (500) Days of Summer is a movie I will not soon forget. It is also a movie I would deeply recommend to anyone who has recently been through a rough breakup.