In every way, Marc Webb's (500) Days of Summer is conceived to be the ultimate mix CD. It's so specifically tailored that it will make certain audience members think "It's like this movie was made for me!" (even if Fox Searchlight hopes that enough moviegoers respond to it to effectively disprove that argument) and it skips around in its romantic chronology so much that it resembles a nonlinear reshuffling of carefully labored-over track numbers.
Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is in love with Summer (Zooey Deschanel) — or was in love with her, depending on where you are in the movie. That’s because Webb and screenwriters Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber take great pleasure in skipping around through all five hundred days of Tom and Summer’s tortured romance.
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