The film "500 Days of Summer" directed by Mark Webb was released in 2009 and received several prestigious awards, including the Golden Globe. And the National Council of Film Critics of the United States made the melodrama in the top ten best films of 2009.
The main character, Tom Hanson, is an ordinary young man who earns his bread by coming up with funny postcard labels. At one point, his life changes when the blue-eyed Summer Finn comes to the office where he works. Next, the story of Tom's love for a new employee, the inevitable series of meetings (first at the office, then at parties), during which the characters get to know each other closer, unfolds.
Gradually, everything is going to ensure that young people become a couple, at least Tom has long believed so, but Summer has a different opinion on this. She is a beautiful, independent and mischievous girl who wants to take advantage of her youth in order to enjoy a carefree pastime and not to bind herself with "all sorts of serious relationships." Among her peers, this approach to life makes her a black sheep, but that is what attracts Tom. He tries to accept her point of view, but understands that he takes their meetings more responsibly.
The filmmakers named the main character, Summer. Translated from English, her name means "summer". “500 days of summer” is exactly the period in Tom’s life that he completely devoted to thoughts about Summer. The highlight of the film was the fact that the relationship of the couple is not shown chronologically, but presented in the form of an old calendar or diary entries, from which Tom "pulls out" one piece of paper to tell his story to the viewer.
Until the end of the film, it remains unclear whether the main characters will be together or still part once and for all. At the same time, the melodrama does not look prolonged, since it is narrated with humor and saturated with unexpected plot twists. The main idea of the film, which the authors wanted to convey to the viewer, looks like this: no matter what happens, whether good or bad, life does not stand still, just like day changes night, and summer changes autumn.
