500 Days of Summer Quotes

I had watched the movie and the plot seems to haunt me everytime I think of Tom's misery. Yes, he has the most part that was so endearing and yet disappointing because of his assumptions and expectations about what Summer should feel about them. He was warned on the first place that nothing serious will happen between them and that the happiness they felt for each other everytime they are together is just a superficial manifestation of their own different understanding about love, companionship and friendship. The story focuses more on Tom because its a typical thing for a guy to be sure of himself towards his partner (or anything) and egoism manages a man's balls to be in control. However, despite the fact that Tom had experience dilemma having "relationship" with Summer, it bacame his detour to keep his focus on becoming a different man for he's sick of making greeting cards about what people should say and what people cannot express to someone. In fact, that time of his depression, he calmly subdued his intension and emotion into being a sharp and prominent man and that kind of transformation immensely brought him up because it's not just a fairytale but something that coincides the twist of fate and reality. In the end, it's not about wether he ends up with Summer or not, but the 500 days memories he had made with her that triggers his life to change and in the long run, to move forward for the next season with AUTUMN....

I've been in Tom's position before, and it's true what his little sister said; she didn't break his heart, he did. It seems justified to say that they were bf and gf because they had spent so much time together in a loving relationship-style of friendship. But everything hinges on her initial comment of not wanting to be in anything serious. And because it takes two to tango, Tom basically fooled himself into thinking that he had something serious and solid. Yes, anyone like Summer or my ex who would do that to another person has some serious intimacy issues. But everyone's different. And men who know better should know to stay away if all initial signs point to just being friends, no matter what happens later.

Summer warns tom at the beginning that she doesn't want anything serious. Just as we were warned at the beginning of the movie that it was not a love story. It's a story of boy meets girl. Yet, we fall in love with the idea of Tom and Summer together, just as Tom falls in love with Summer. Our feelings our meant to mimic Tom's, because even though we are warned up front we are devastated when Tom and Summer don't end up together. I don't mean to sound like an uppity better-than-everyone super skank either I just felt like this was an epiphany.

To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.

People who think Summer is a bitch are far off base. She’s honest and relatively straightforward, trying to have a good time. The movie would be entirely different if you saw it from her point of view.

that's what 500 days is about to me--seeing this relationship (ups and downs) from Tom's perspective and being treated to the exploration of his emotions and his memories of it