Summer is the favorite season for many. 500 days of summer could be a great thing. 500 days of Summer (Zooey Deschanel) could be a good thing or a bad thing; and there in lies the unfolding of this tale. “Love doesn’t exist, it’s a fantasy.” That’s the kind of philosophy that Summer lives by. Pretty sad if you ask me. Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) on the other hand is the hopeless romantic under the influence of the Summer effect. As the opening narration states, this is not a love story, it’s more of a battle between this hopeless romantic and the non-emotional realist. It’s a boy meets girl but not so cliché. As one of Tom’s buddies, McKenzie (Geoffrey Arend), declares “you’re a dude . . . she’s a dude”. The typical male/female positions regarding relationships seem to be reversed in this circumstance.
