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… this is not a love story. – 500 Days of Summer

But this is kind of a love story, because I really really liked this movie. And it totally is a love story, whether it calls itself that or not. Apart from Away We Go, 500 Days of Summer is probably my favorite movie that I’ve seen in the past couple years. Like Away We Go, I feel like it’s for my generation, man, and like it’s aimed at people around my age. In both of the movies, the characters are kind of grown-ups but not quite. Or they’re not quite comfortable being grown-ups. 500 Days also does a good job of incorporating music and looks  and ways of talking and parts of culture that I like without it feeling forced (unlike, Juno, which, don’t get me wrong, I still love). I wish I could afford (and better pull off) the Anthropologie-esque wardrobe that Zooey Deschanel’s character wears or actually find stuff like it at thrift stores, where they supposedly found a lot of it for her. The film is also realistic without being depressing. I’m kind of disappointed that it isn’t based on a book because I’d like to read it if it were.