500 Days of Summer Meaning
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pirzadaj Jun 28th 2010, 06:50 report
To me the movie meant that even though two people care deeply about each other, its not quite right unless the amount the care about each other is the same. He was utterly in love with her in every way. She loved him, but always felt like there was something missing. That is how she felt in all her previous relationships, like something was missing, that is why she had a negative view on relationships in general. But at the end, she met the right guy, or the guy who made her feel the way she never did before. And I am assuming this guy felt the way he needed to feel to be with her forever. The male lead on the other hand was devastated, but the lesson there is that with time we all heal and that if the love is only one-sided, then it was never meant to be in the first place and should only be seen as a past experience.
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anonymous Oct 28th 2010, 08:38 report
This is a wonderful insight on human relationships, how we perceive them and how they really work. It´s funny that the wisest character appears to be a 10 year old girl, but anyhow. Since this was a request, I was really explicit, if you don´t feel like reading the whole thing, go straight to the last paragraph :)
Tom is a hopeless romantic, desperately seeking "the love of his life" and with a firm belief that the world will be a wonderful place when he finds "The One", out of his mid, however, (in reality) he´s a random guy with a mediocre job and nothing too special going on on his life.
Summer is cinically realistic. For her there´s not such thing as love, there´s compatibility and there´s understanding, cherishing is accepted, but love is ridiculous. Summer, however her real life, far from being bitter, is fun! she´s the typical "free spirit" we see in movies (in your average romantic movie about a guy with an average life, a little too into work, who meets a girl who changees his life and turns out to be his true love in spite of all their differences)And, as a cherry on an ice cream, she´s gorgeous.
So Tom begins his "movie" by falling in love with summer, he suddenly loves everything about her and happens to find out, Summer does not find him entirely repulsive, they start this sort of "relationship", even though Summer clearly states, she´s not looking for such thing. Tom is entirely happy, everything seems to be great in life, he starts doing better at work and all. He finally found the one.
For Summer, this is meerly a good time he has with some guy, that will eventually stop being a part of his life, and she´s a little overwhealmed by how he insists on her "accepting" they have a relationship while she´s only having a good time. Summmer finally gets bored and breaks up with him.
Tom´s misery begins. He´s constantly sad, he does bad at work and his whole life is crushed by the memory of Summer, having lost "The One" his life has lost meaning. He meets with summer at a party and they have a great time! Tom´s head is build up with hope again. Summer invites him to a party and he accepts convinced he will get her back, only setting himself for disappointment.
After breaking up with Tom, Summer has moved on with her life, she even met someone and agreed to marry him.
Against all movie odds, Summer marries some dude we don´t even know.
Near the end, Tom picks himself up from the ground and decides to get a new job, he has rescued himself from mediocrity, but is convinced that there is not such thing as love. Summer is now a firm believer.
500 Days of Summer is not only a great comedy, but also an insightful analysis of love. it´s about THAT relationship. The one you think will work, and even though we´re only watching Tom´s perspective, it´s quite clear that Summer is definitely not going on the same path, quoting Tom´s little sister "Just because some cute girl likes the same weird stuff than you, doesn´t mean she´s the one". We meet someone "special" and we thing she´s "The one" while our significant other might be the most random person in the world, but we will see her as the most special one. You meet people, you realte and most of the times, it doesn´t work, that´s how life happens, but just because someone dumps you, doesn´t mean your life is over, you get over it, you move on. When Tom has assured himself that there is not someone out there inserted on earth specially for him, he meets a girl and realizes she has been around him for a long time, he just hadn´t been looking. But there is not such thing as fate... right? when he asks her name, she says her name is Autumn, so Summer is over, it´s Autumn now.
The whole movie is about how our different perspectives about love cause confusions, missunderstandings and all the things that cause us to feel the ways we feel in different kinds of relationships, how we blame others for our pain, how we confuse a little intimacy with a whole lot more, how we let chances go for being stuck on something we can´t have, how our preconceptions about love make us better or worse partners, how we can be losing someone and not even notice, how everything feels wrong when we get dumped, how much it hurts to see the other person move on, and mostly, how our "imaginary" relationship (the one we want and have in our head) and the "real" relationship, are never the same. Bad relationships do not mean you won´t find your "One", they just teach you the lessons you will need to be the best partner for THAT person, and you learn by messing up with people who end up being someone else´s "one" -
anonymous Mar 20th 2011, 23:49 report
I think the meaning is that love is blind...you see things the way you want to see them and that they are not always how they appear to be. And that you shouldn't dwell on the past no matter how good you remember it to be, you should just move on to what's ahead of you cause there will always be good and bad times in life. The past is the past, why waste time wishing for something that is done and gone..we should be focusing on now and experiences the future brings.
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anonymous Mar 20th 2011, 23:49 report
I think the meaning is that love is blind...you see things the way you want to see them and that they are not always how they appear to be. And that you shouldn't dwell on the past no matter how good you remember it to be, you should just move on to what's ahead of you cause there will always be good and bad times in life. The past is the past, why waste time wishing for something that is done and gone..we should be focusing on now and experiences the future brings.
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anonymous Mar 20th 2011, 23:50 report
I think the meaning is that love is blind...you see things the way you want to see them and that they are not always how they appear to be. And that you shouldn't dwell on the past no matter how good you remember it to be, you should just move on to what's ahead of you cause there will always be good and bad times in life. The past is the past, why waste time wishing for something that is done and gone..we should be focusing on now and experiences the future brings.
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anonymous Oct 13th 2011, 22:31 report
I feel as if the movie is saying, that people live different roads. That life, can be unexpected and actually start at any given time.
You could be alone, grieving hopelessly that you have no one to love, and that you don't think that it will ever find you. OR you could be in a wild, amazing relationship that has been going on strong for a good 2 years, ALTHOUGH you have no idea if that person is the one. You could say that, that lonely person isn't really looking for life, or love, and that the person in the relationship is having it better. I think, that love finds you, or it makes it so fate comes unexpectedly. I think, that both persons are actually traveling two different roads, but they both lead to the same place. Some travel together, yet some travel differently,some with more bumps than others, some with more benefits,some that have more emotions happy or sad, confused, or just hurt, it doesn't matter, because they all lead down the same road. Obviously some people can misinterpret the ending to be different and unfair, and that may be so. I think that only happens if that person was found by fate, but ignored it. I feel as if once fate finds you, its your choice to take up on it, and you never know how many chances you get.
Regrets are the lessons of life, and they are only learned once the action is set and done. In 500 days of summer you see that Tom was wrong all along about who he loved, but right on what love was. Sometimes, maybe, fate, will give you obstacles to test if you are worthy for "love". And if passed you are given the great reward of 20-20 vision, having the ability to see clearly, having the ability to see love for what it really is, being able to find the "true one". It might not even be so difficult to pass. Yet with hesitation,makes uncertainty. So, if you have that feeling, and trust me you'll know. Go. Don't stop, and if you do, continue. Because that could be the reward, or the obstacle, either way, you end up in the same place.
In my opinion, and just as a person who still is waiting for love it self, and could be dead wrong,... I think its worth the risk, i think it's worth the wait. And if its not, and i turn out to be dead wrong, and nothing ever happens, and we all end up alone,....
Bullshit.
But Hope, is really what you need, and a little patients, maybe some confidence, on the side. To me, happiness, is life itself. The "Drive of Life"
-Tom D
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