500 Days of Rainy Season

Omniscient Narrator:

"Boy meets girl.
Girl meets boy.
Boy falls in love.
Girl doesn't."

"This is not a love story.
This is a story about love."

Those first lines from the film grabbed me, stunned me, and made me curious. I was petrified from my seat.

500 Days of Summer is a independent film that breaks most of the rules but is utterly charming, refreshingly candid, and will want you to watch the movie from start to finish as you are taken to a whirlwind tale of 500 days. It is witty and intelligent. A good watch for anyone who does and does not believe in fate, who does and does not believe and love, and those who just want to stay in their homes because of the typhoon.

This movie will be referenced for years , it redefines romantic comedy. This is a break away from the sorry state of Hollywood romantic comedies.

(Tom believes it was a cosmic arrangement that they were in an elevator, having the same liking of "The Smiths", the girl just wanted it casual )

Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a frustrated architect works at a greeting card company reflects back on over a year he knew Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel). The movie is non-linear in flashback, it jumps back and forth in the storyline from happy days to bad days.

The day they where and where not fated to meet.
The day they broke up but couldn't break up because they are and are not a couple.
The day they were lovers and not friends, and friends and not lovers.
The day they hated each other, the day they couldn't leave each other.

This sunny and rainy movie is both crushing and hopeful just like life.

it also has a dual view of EXPECTATION and REALITY as the main character frustrated wishes that maybe, just maybe this time expectation WILL align with reality.



Both main characters were played out like it was so natural. Mr. Gordon-Levitt was hopelessly romantic believing in love, fate, and music. Ms. Deschanel has the look of being approacheable and unattainable, she does not believe in true love and lives through modern relationships... no labels nor moral responsibility. They are both eral life characters you would

Can you now see where the story is going?

Marc Webb's jump from directoring music videos to the big screen had a great feel in the movie. Pop music played a great deal for the film. A lot of scenes where drowned in great music of dreamy melodies from Regina Spector (a personal favorite), The Smiths, and many more. The movie even inserted a musical, quite funny.


Director Webb further notes that “In making this movie, my first feature film, it is the happy ending that I didn’t have with Summer. It’s a whiff of the uncynical kid. Because under the humor and the whimsy of “500 Days of Summer,” there’s a fundamental truth at play: yes, love can be cruel, harsh and difficult but it’s by far, the best thing life has to offer.”