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Pass the Popcorn: 500 Days of Summer

“This isn’t a love story. This is a story of boy meets girl.” 500 Days of Summer is really a story about life and relationships. It wonderfully shows the progression of a two young professionals as they meet, court, and start dating; all while having two different viewpoints on love, which realistically come from their upbringing. It’s constructed in the now popular jigsaw timeline technique, but jumping from day 429 to 19 to 325 isn’t simply for style. It actually helps the story build momentum. The characters have their quirks but aren’t too quirky while the dialogue is smart without being obnoxious. It’s a script I would aspire write and a movie that gets better days after you watch it.