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(500) Days of Summer is a pretty movie. The pace is a little slow, but it is overall pleasant, good-looking and enjoyable. Not only are the two main characters attractive, but the style in which the story is presented is ascetically pleasing, with polished editing and scenery that is easy on the eyes.

The film is narrated by a stereotypical story-teller-older-man voice, which initially threw me off, but was subtle and agreeable enough that it only added to the charm of the movie. The narrator starts out by insisting that “this is not a love story, but a story about love.” We come to understand that this means that the story of Tom and Summer is not a tale of two people who love each other, but one striving to show something about love, fate and destiny.

The story successfully makes a point about serendipitous events, in particular people encountering one another because they happened to be at the same place at the same time and were somehow drawn together. It may be interpreted by some as fate that these two people were “meant to be together”, and (500) Days of Summer makes a strong case for this theory, throwing in an ironic and comical twist to the end of a story about love.