Although the narration at the beginning of the film tells us "This is not a love story.", in any case, this "500 Days with Summer", which made the literary film market in the second half of 2009, is a love movie after all. The author would like to position this film as an inspirational film, because it uses another way to explain a story about growth to the audience.
The initial shot of the movie is on the 488th day after the two met. The ring on the girl Summer’s ring finger, the hands held by the boy Tom and Summer, and the warm moment of the two cuddling side by side on a bench in Los Angeles’ downtown park all make people happy. Misunderstood that this is a story with a great ending. But more often, reality is not so beautiful after all-these are just two "friends for benefit". In ancient times, the beginning of chaos and the end of abandonment were put on a modern concept by director Marc Webb. A relationship that should have been unbearable was filmed extremely harmonious, and the meaning of love was deeply explored.
Compared with Eastern women's implicit and circuitous expressions of emotions, Summer told each other from the beginning that she did not want to enter into any romantic relationship, let alone believe in the existence of love. But out of their various desires for ambiguous emotions, and adhering to the principle of "just to get along with each other, not the result", Summer and Tom are still doing things that belong only to lovers-flirting in the photocopying room, and being a husband and wife at IKEA. Games, mandarin duck bath in bathroom, etc. In today's world where pursuits are constantly accelerating, the relationship between the two that Summer advocates is obviously too magnanimous. Compared with the low-end ambiguities sold along the street, this ambiguity requires only a little time and a little cleverness. The two parties involved are like playing games that arouse the excitement of the body and the mind without having to bear the consequences. But because there are no consequences, the ambiguity at this moment has become a consumable, like soap bubbles and fireworks, destroying the corpse and destroying the traces, only if both parties understand it. Of course, Tom did not keep that soberness. Like most ambiguous participants in the world, from the moment of love at first sight, Tom was captured by the "summer effect" and was innocently dragged down by an ambiguous relationship. So wet, very embarrassed.
It can’t be said that there is a problem with Summer’s concept of love. After all, the influence of childhood makes the girl protect herself in an immature way. When the film went on, she and Tom were sitting in the theater watching "The Graduate" and they burst into tears, people understood. It's her loneliness that longs for love but doesn't want to be restrained. When the film was about to end, Summer entered the marriage hall with a man she had known for a few days. She originally seemed to admire freedom and entrusted herself to another man within a few days, but it was a pity that this man was not Tom after all.
The biggest highlight of the film is that the director shuffled the sequence of the two protagonists’ love progress for 500 days, and based on Tom’s memory of love, he used flashbacks to interlace the narrative in a flexible way to subjectively splicing the memory fragments and the emotional interweaving to fully show The process of an infatuated man's total loss brought the audience into Tom's inner world. From the initial throbbing, hesitation, and retreat of the two of the two to the sweet love later, to the final burnout, inexplicable breakup, love and hatred, loss of soul, the film’s depiction of emotions is completed in a memory-based contrast. . For example, on the 154th day, Tom said to his friends that he loved Summer’s smile, hair, knees, and even the heart-shaped birthmark on his neck, and the gesture of pursing her mouth before speaking. And when the story progressed to the 322th day, all these beautiful things became one of the reasons Tom hated Summer. Another example is the scene where the two were dating at IKEA on the 282th day. After Tom's joke, Summer faced each other indifferently, and the film immediately cut to the 34th day when the two had the same joke on him. The connection of memories like this in the film is natural and skillful, without the slightest fragmentation and confusion, and the protagonist’s emotions are clear and empathetic. These gaps between Tom's emotional expectations and facing reality, as well as his wishful thinking about fate, are enough to cater to the mood of every person in love.
To Tom, encountering Summer is like a prelude to the emotional road, creating infinite imagination for the ups and downs of the story, just as the narration in the film said, "Every adult man’s life will meet at least one Summer that belongs to him. "And it is inevitable that you will encounter setbacks on the road of relationship, so it may be a good choice for a broken-up boy to watch this film-let the girl who made your love die alive is just a short trip with you, sharing a few rays of good sunshine, Appreciating a few good scenery, turning a few turns, stopping a few platforms, we will usher in an autumn journey.
kang.
2010/01/25
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