Summer Loving

You can tell a lot about how people perceive a movie from the one word reviews they hear from their friends.  For 500 Days Of Summer, the words are “weird,” “quirky,” and “odd.”  I guess those are synonyms of “original.”  500 Days seems to have brought Indie Phobia out of mainstream movie goers.  Sure, the story is not told chronologically, there is a dance break near the middle of the film, and yes, it has a hipster soundtrack not unlike Juno or Garden State (shutter).  But this film doesn’t use these pieces as gimmicks, rather as devices to help translate the feeling of a break-up from your heart right onto the big screen.