| Review : Off-beat romantic comedy starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Brick Mysterious Skin) and Zooey Deschanel (Failure to Launch). This is a story of boy meets girl begins the wry probing narrator of 500 Days Of Summer and with that the film takes off at breakneck speed into a funny true-to-life and unique dissection of the unruly and unpredictable year-and-a-half of one young man's no-holds-barred love affair. Tom the boy still believes even in this cynical modern world in the notion of a transforming cosmically destined lightning-strikes-once kind of love. Summer the girl doesn't. Not at all. But that doesn't stop Tom from going after her again and again like a modern Don Quixote with all his might and courage. Suddenly Tom is in love not just with a lovely witty intelligent woman -- not that he minds any of that -- but with the very idea of Summer the very idea of a love that still has the power to shock the heart and stop the world. |