I picked this movie up the other day when the cover caught my attention, I figured it would be a simple, predictable enough movie to play in the background and not really play attention to it. just something to round out my collection of mostly action movies. that was a wrong assumption though, not paying attention means you miss out on a lot of foreshadowing and context.
The narrative bounces around the 500 days that Joseph-Gordon Levitt's character Tom is in love with Zooey Deschanel's titular character Summer. The way the narrative bounces around creates exceptions early on that the film cleverly twists around later. mainly when the film starts, it shows them holding hands, smiling at each other while Summer wears a ring on day 488 and then shows a brief scene of them meeting on day 1 that is quickly followed by a scene set on day 290 where Tom is angrily breaking plates because Summer broke up with him while friends and family try to comfort him. giving you the idea that they meet fall in love, break up sometime down the line and get back together in typical rom-com fashion. after this the movies goes along the story fairly straight forward with interludes to earlier or later days to help contextualize other days and scenes.
The movie also has some amazing cinematography. The Exceptions vs. Reality scene being the major standout, it has a unique premise that helps convey one of the most emotional scenes of the movie in just a few minutes.
Probably one of my favorite movie scenes now
Clark Gregg whom is known by most everyone has Phil Coulson from the Marvel movies and TV Shows has small role and a memorable line
