So we have our hero Tom Hansen ( Gordon-Levitt) who falls in love with Summer (Zooey Deschanel) at the very first sight. So we have Tom who believes that true love surely exists and is damn sure that summer is his soul mate the moment he sees her. Summer on the other hand is someone who really doubt if something called love exists and who isn’t attached to anything and is never for any serious relationship. So he likes her instantly in a very serious intense way, she likes him eventually in a casual way!! She warns him it’s nothing serious and just a casual relationship and doesn’t want to give them any tags of boyfriend – girlfriend. So they have a good time together, everything looks nice and merry until one day when she calls it quits. She moves on, he is stuck and vows to win her back .So do he or does he not?? Well it’s better to be watched rather read!!
What makes this movie mainly work is its brilliant screenplay. The narrative is completely non linear. Its moves back and forth constantly and makes it an engaging watch. It starts off with the two happily sitting on the favorite spot in the city and enjoying an evening, immediately cuts back to stage to the day when she calls it quits, then it goes back further back to the day he meets her the first time, then its jumps ahead where he is trying to win her back and so on. So as much as it predictable the non linearity in the narrative keeps us guessing what really has happened. It is beautifully done. Then the lead pair are very simple looking normal people. The characterization and the casting of the leads is nothing fancy which makes the story very relatable. More importantly it never gets melodramatic or cheesy at any point, the one mistake most romantic movies make at some point of time in its running time. Here its deftly handled with neat humor sprinkled all over. The dialogues are funny, smart and well written.
The director Marc Webb makes an interesting debut, who has shot several music videos in the past. So we see the influence. This one has some really good soundtrack (Sweet disposition was awesome) running along through the movie and several references to many music bands. He also employs a few split screen sequences to effectively bring out the several differences and a few similarities between his lead characters. There is a scene where Tom enquires what really is the relationship that he shares with summer, intending he wants to make the relationship official, where summer retorts back saying she doesn’t really care what the relationship is and all it matters is if she is happy and doesn’t want to give it any name. Then we see a touch of disappointment in Toms face as their car moves into a road tunnel which goes darker as they progress which implicitly implies the state of their relationship too as tom sees it i.e. no light at the end of the tunnel. Then we have the song sequence right after the two make love for the first time and we see Tom dancing and singing with predominantly blue seen everywhere resembling the blue eyes of Summer. Such little things are beautifully done in this movie.
This one may not make the cut as your favorite romantic movie ( like as is said in the beginning still unsure if you could call this one), but definitely its one of best movies that I watched this year or should I be saying one of the best of movies of this Summer :)
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