What is the message behind 500 Days of Summer?

Don’t Let Your Happiness Be Dependent On Another Person Possibly one of the most important lessons from (500) Days of Summer is that happiness cannot be dependent on another person. Summer becomes the only source of happiness for Tom, and he loses himself because of that.

What is so good about 500 Days of Summer?

One of the genius things about 500 Days of Summer is that it legitimately avoids an easy reading, and can be appreciated in a myriad of different ways by a myriad of different people. Certainly you could view Tom as a flawed hero and 500 Days as a feminist deconstruction of the MPDG; that reading works perfectly well.

Is 500 Days of Summer a love story?

Yes, a boy – Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) — and a girl — Summer (Zooey Deschanel) — indeed meet. But (500) Days of Summer is not quite a love story. It’s the story of a relationship, filtered through one man’s obsession.

Why does Summer cry at the end of The Graduate?

there’s a scene where Tom and Summer go and see The Graduate and she’s bawling at the end of the movie. I’m curious what you all think is the significance of her crying. It obviously means something because it happens when he is remembering back all the signs for their relationship ending.

What was Tom’s perception of Summer throughout their 500 days together?

Tom refuses to understand what Summer wants and expects from their relationship, effectively becoming the antagonist of his own story. The theory (via TVOvermind) suggests that Tom is the villain since he built Summer up in his mind and became obsessed with the idea of her rather than acknowledge reality.

Is 500 Days of Summer from Tom’s perspective?

(500) Days of Summer tells the story of Summer and Tom, but exclusively from Tom’s point of view. Refinery29 calls the movie a “love story for cynics,” and it seemed like a response to the many romantic comedies that graced the big screen in the 2000s. People loved it, and it still has an 85% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.