Uploaded July 2009 | Updated September 2026, 9 minutes ago
A breakout hit at the Sundance Film Festival, 500 DAYS OF SUMMER is careful to tell you that it is NOT a love story, which really isn't true. This movie is definitely about love, but it's just as much about breaking up and coming to terms with the aftermath. I think what they meant to say is that 500 DAYS OF SUMMER is not a conventional romantic comedy, since romantic comedies are a genre where the two people you expect to get together always do, where true love conquers all in the most predictable ways, where people realize their big fight was all over a big misunderstanding and they go running through the streets and into each others arms and everything is perfect as the credits roll. You know. Just like in real life. Right? Or is that just me?
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A breakout hit at the Sundance Film Festival, 500 DAYS OF SUMMER is careful to tell you that it is NOT a love story, which really isn't true. This movie is definitely about love, but it's just as much about breaking up and coming to terms with the aftermath. I think what they meant to say is that 500 DAYS OF SUMMER is not a conventional romantic comedy, since romantic comedies are a genre where the two people you expect to get together always do, where true love conquers all in the most predictable ways, where people realize their big fight was all over a big misunderstanding and they go running through the streets and into each others arms and everything is perfect as the credits roll. You know. Just like in real life. Right? Or is that just me?
For more ReThink Reviews, the only (and, therefore, best) political movie reviews anywhere, go here youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B5DFC2A5707C5EBB
Follow ReThink Reviews on Twitter at twitter.com/ReThinkReviews
You can also read my reviews on the Huffington Post at huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-kim
