It’s like: A Like Lot Love meets High Fidelity with a sprinkling of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind mixed with a great soundtrack.
Stars you’d know: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel
Their tagline: Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn’t.
My tagline: Every love story has two stories.
Verdict: Loved Loved Loved it.
Adding it to my list of “thought-provoking romantic comedies” (i know, that’s such a cliche). This ranks with Eternal Sunshine…and High Fidelity. Basically it’s a tour of a relationship through the course of 500 days…sometimes not in order, but very cleverly written to outline an entire relationship from magical beginning (who doesn’t feel like day 35 in a new relationship?!) to bitter end…with a little bit of destiny and fate thrown in, for the romantic skeptics that life has turned us into. The writing was beautifully executed, easy to follow, and there was a bit of whimsy thrown in, just to be different. I loved that they followed the guy’s point of view, cause all too often, they follow the “damsel in distress” which just makes me want to yak. Deschanel and Gordon-Levitt made me fall in love with them…their sincerity and playfulness mixed with subtle complexity was spot-on. It had everything this helplessly skeptical romantic could ask for: a well-written romantic script acted with subtlety and grace, mixed with a whole lotta irony and fate, backed by a killer soundtrack. It made me, once again, believe that every love story should have a story…and that every love doesn’t necessarily end with “happily ever after”. This one’s a keeper.
