I know summer is over here but what I'm talking about is the new film titled "(500) Days of Summer." It stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt (I remember him clearly as the guy in Angels in the Outfield because I like that movie) and Zooey Deschanel (I loved her the first time I saw her and not to mention she does look like Katy Perry).
Writer/director Marc Webb (before this, best known for the Green Day video "Waiting") hits some homeruns, especially in casting: The chemistry is palpable between Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. Deschanel, with her luminous eyes and oddly gorgeous face, is a heroine you don't mind looking at forever.
Gordon-Levitt plays a onetime aspiring architect who has settled for a job writing platitudes in graduation and Bar Mitzvah cards, when Deschanel joins the office. After they meet, he is convinced that Deschanel is "the One," whereas she doesn't believe in that kind of stuff and just wants to keep it casual. So begins a relationship that seemingly consists of effervescent visits to Ikea, breakups in diners and occasional indie-movie sex scenes - all is going swimmingly, until it's not.
But (500) Days of Summer is a self-professed "anti-love story," so it's important not to walk into it expecting a summer-love story, or at least, not one that lasts. But what it does offer is an original and expressive tale of a love affair from beginning to (possible) end - the oldest story in the movies, and one that renews itself time after time, just like love. (500) Days of Summer is an easy, breezy version of that, mostly getting you where it counts, and lingering fittingly.
One way or another, I cannot wait to see it! Just by looking at the trailer, I already see the good chemistry between Deschanel and Gordon-Levitt.
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