"This is a story of boy meets girl, but you should know upfront, this is not a love story."
People are very different between each other. There are people who want to fall in love and live with this person for ever whereas there are people who just want to have experiences without being related to someone all their lives. The problem starts when these two kind of people meet each other and start a relationship. Who is gonna change? Who is gonna lose? Who is gonna achieve its goal: the one who wants to share its life with this person for ever or the one who does not?
She is Summer (Zooey Deschanel), a girl who does not want problems in her life. She thinks life is difficult enough to make it even more difficult falling in love with someone. She thinks love does not exist and she also thinks that she will never be in love with anybody. Destiny is not part of the world for her, and the only thing she wants is to be happy and to make whatever she needs and desires.
This is Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a boy who really believes in destiny and love. He has always been quite sad because he's never found a girl who loves him. When Summer appears everything changes. He tries to deny his feelings but it is impossible. He is totally in love with her.
Is not this really a love story? I do not think so, I actually think this is a fantastic love story different from others. But it is not happy at all. I wonder how I would behave if I were Tom... and I feel quite stressed.
In my opinion Tom is not the only who is in love. He is the one who accepts the reality, although he also creates false expectations which does not help him at all. Anyway, I think Summer, more than Tom or less, has felt love. But all my theories are broken at the end of this romantic but non-romantic movie where some hard words that Sum says sum up what this story has been for Sum. Here I leave you the video which you can watch or not, depending on whether you are going to see the movie or not:
But at the end, not everything is sad; there are also new beginnings, new opportunities, new loves. And the destiny keeps working, as Tom believed.
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