(500) Days of Summer: Difference between revisions

 

* [[Adorkable]]: Tom. He's awkward and silly, but you can't help but love him. Rachel thinks he's a bit of a nerd.

* [[Anachronic Order]]: The film begins on Day 488 and then jumps around among the 500 days as Tom (through the [[Narrator]]) recalls them.

* [[Better Than a Bare Bulb]]

* [[How We Got Here]]: The first day of Tom and Summer's relationship we see is Day 488, near the end of it -- {{spoiler|in fact, exactly two hundred days ''after'' she dumped him, and several days after she married someone else}}. The rest of the movie [[Anachronic Order|jumps back and forth through the five hundred days]] to explain [[How We Got Here]].

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Incessant.

'''Tom''': That's bullshit! }}

* [[It Got Worse]]

* [[Love Hurts]]: Oh, yes.

* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Subverted/deconstructed; Tom initially thinks of Summer as one, and pursues a relationship with her even though she flip-flops between being clear that she's [[Friends with Benefits|not interested in anything serious]] and [[The Tease|leading him on]], which leads to getting his heart broken when {{spoiler|she dumps him and marries someone else}}. Thus are explored the very [[Truth in Television|true-to-life]] hazards of treating a woman as a romantic ideal rather than a human being. Arguably, Tom {{spoiler|may have been a Manic Pixie Dream ''Guy'' to Summer, who tells him at the end that he taught her that love is real}}. [[Word of God]] on the subject:

* [[Master of the Mixed Message]]: It seems like every time Summer tells Tom she's not interested in something serious, she immediately throws a curve ball in the form of hand-holding, kisses or sex. Just before she breaks up with him, she impulsively kisses Tom in the street.

** The worst example of this would be when they have a huge fight, Summer tries to tell him they are [[Just Friends]], he storms out, and Summer goes over to his place in the morning, in the rain, has sex with him and implies she was wrong and wants to stay in the relationship.

** A romantic comedy that's about love and not a love story where the protagonist doesn't live happily ever after with the girl from the beginning with [[Anachronic Order]] and being [[Indie]]? Sounds a bit like [[Annie Hall]] for Generation Y.

* [[Spit Take]]:

'''Summer''': "...I was very neat and organized." }}

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Very early in Tom's relationship with Summer, one of his friends teases him that he's one of these toward Summer. {{spoiler|Of course she overhears.}}