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    (500) Days of Summer uses nonlinear storytelling and the presence of a narrator to tell the story of Tom and Summer's relationship over 500 days. The cinematography complements Zooey Deschanel's eyes as Summer and creates a calm, 1950s atmosphere in Los Angeles. Key scenes directly address the audience to evaluate Tom and Summer's perspectives, and a split screen highlights how Tom's expectations differ from reality, representing a turning point. The film delivers an emotionally perfected plot through technical elements and composition, leaving a lasting impression on the viewer.

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    Film Critique

    (500) Days of Summer


    Movies are created to entertain, tell a story and give us some food for thought.
    Some movies leave their mark on our brains and hearts with the help of a
    fascinating and a touching story, and some of them use astonishing visual
    effects to be remembered. But (500) Days of Summer used both emotional and
    visual aspects to tell a heartbreaking story.

    (500) Days of Summer is a narrative motion picture, which uses intricate


    chronologically uneven techniques. Film opens with the backstory about two
    main characters, which is being told by an independent narrator. Both of the
    main characters are shown moving towards the camera and stopping right
    before it, which resembles a way of them introducing themselves to the
    audience. Then we are suddenly thrown into the present, where the main
    character Tom is suffering from the consequences of dating a girl called
    Summer. To explain to a viewer everything that is going on, film switches to the
    500 days ago, the day he met her. Surprisingly constant jumping from one time
    to another is not confusing at all. The presence of an unknown narrator, who
    voices thoughts of the two main characters really help with the understanding
    of a film’s structure.

    Cinematographers, who worked on the (500) Days of Summer, had focused on


    blue and yellow as main colors of the movie, to complement Zooey
    Deschanel’s, who plays Summer, eyes. Her character is being described as
    old-fashioned and free-spirited, which reflects on the outfits of main characters
    and the film setting. The events are happening in Los Angeles, but you cannot

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    tell from the way movie presents the city. It almost feels like the 50s. In my
    opinion it creates a very calm and comfortable atmosphere. The audience is
    not distracted by the visual stimuli and can analyze the relationship between
    the main characters.

    Often, in the movie, the main characters can be seen looking directly into a
    camera. This trick is used to help take the communication within the movie out
    of its boundaries to the audience. In conversations with his best friends, Tom
    looks as if through the screen expecting a reaction and a response from us, the
    viewer. In a pivotal discussion about love between Tom and Summer, camera
    moves rapidly from each of them and only showing us one conversational point
    at the time, so that we can evaluate their reasons and choose who to support.

    The cinematography, in this case, plays a very important part in supporting


    film’s structure. The viewer’s interest is being created by a contrast between
    past and present. One of the best part of (500) Days of Summer is when we
    see how everything that Tom loved about Summer, her smile, her hair, her
    knees and the way she says his name, become things that he hates the most
    about her. And to convey that, cinematographers use the same images, just
    with the different narrative. At one point we can see the comparative split
    screen, which shows the differences between Tom’s expectations and reality,
    which added a delicate sadness to the whole movie, but became a turning
    point for Tom’s destiny.

    (500) Days of Summer is thoroughly thought out movie, with all of its elements
    being visibly perfected. It delivers on the plot and emotional part brilliantly
    along with the specific and technically improved composition. This film is very
    pleasing esthetically and it makes you think about the realities of love. (500)
    Days of Summer became one of my favorite movies after the first screening
    and it still occupies a spot on the shelf with my DVD collection.

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