To get straight to the heart of the general public, sometimes do not need a film copyright or the masterpiece of a famous director: thick, low-budget films, independent and unpretentious, able to fully hit the target, where a master of cinema instead of fail.
This is the case of (500) Days of Summer (500 days together), romantic comedy of 2009, work-time director Marc Webb behind the camera in the past for numerous music videos by artists like lennykravitz , Anastacia , Counting Crows and Greenday, just to name a few.
The film, which does not affect the plot (the story is undoubtedly already seen many times on the big screen), but stands out for other qualities, for all that veil of cynicism, irony and sacred truth, with which a modern tale of love is told to the audience.
(500) Days of Summer is a story short, but intense, two ordinary people in a big city and dispersed, but random frame of their fateful meeting. Two souls are very similar, yet different as that one day by accident, stumble into each other, without understanding that a simple "hello", from then on, inevitably will change their destiny.
Theirs is a story like many others, a love story similar to many others perhaps, or maybe not. One of those desperate and impossible love affairs, forever destined to leave a big scar in my heart. A feeling exploded unexpectedly, one day suddenly. One of those loves
able to take your breath away, to touch the sky with a finger and break your heart into a thousand tiny pieces that can not be reunited, to give unique and unforgettable emotions, to suffer like never before.
Starring Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt ) and Summer (Zooey Deschanel ), playful and looking for true love him, dodge, controversial and with her head away.
stumbled into each other during a company party, are now between the two sparks, despite the many impediments to her, terrified of commitment, and strong uncertainty about him, too fascinated by the beauty and fluency of my colleague. In a moment, they are butterflies in the stomach.
Webb chooses not to barricade themselves behind a conventional film, and aiming higher, taking decisions and directing original, dynamic narrative: the story goes backwards, including flashbacks and memories, to reconstruct the path of emotional and Tom Summer, from the first meeting until the end credits.
Through broken but steadily rhythmic sequences, the film tells the relationship between the two, introducing each scene climax, every moment, with a time reference (the number of days), which often goes back in time, to fill gaps in history and art to describe the progress of the feelings of each character.
the strains of beautiful songs by the Smiths , of Black Lips , the Temper Trap and Simon & Garfunkel, Tom and Summer inevitably fall in love, despite the thousands of posts made by her to avoid this happens, and a thousand fears to him, both open their hearts to true love, timid and complicit in a bustle of doubts, questions and so many broken promises.
The story is told from the point of view of Tom and differs markedly from the usual stereotypes about men, without the slightest lapse in machismo penny, but instead going to a pure romance and deep, perhaps atypical but certainly genuine.
Webb amazes us, and going against the trend, choose not to conclude the film with the classic "and they lived happily ever after" Summer breaks my heart to Tom, marries another man, and when the two meet again after a few months, I am heartened However, assuring him that will never forget it.
But the director, unfortunately, is not brave to the last, and at the end of the film, however, decides to leave with a smile and say hello instead of Tom with an image of a sad and heart broken into pieces ( as would happen in everyday life), the show immediately face the prospect of a new love, Luna.
And this is the only flaw of the film, the courage of the director who at the very end is lost, depriving us of the bitter icing on the cake, and painting a vision, perhaps, too optimistic love.
Why true love, the one with a capital A, you meet once in life, and who has experienced the skin, knows this. A
Webb escapes instead, perhaps because he has not yet met his soul mate.
Perhaps because it is still searching for his half of the apple.
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