Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue... Fuck You Whore!

As summer nears it's inevitable end a film pops out which can't not be mentioned with the ending of a season, (500) Days Of Summer, about 2 young people meeting, becoming friends, lovers, break up and the aftermath finally hits the UK on, ad I'm quoting a mother pushing a push chair as I walked to the cinema, "The last day of summer holidays"

Bliss to come as kids don't annoy me when I go around town, but the film, unfortunately, was full of 12 year olds with nothing else to do. And did they get most of the jokes and references? Not one bit. A quote from Belle And Sebastian, a joke about the misinterpretation of the ending of The Graduate being about true love and contentment, a parody of The Seventh Seal with a chess match against Cupid, it's witty, intelligent, it doesn't pander to philistines and they didn't get any of the brilliant points this film has.

The film starts in the middle and jumps around, kindly we get some voice over at different points to keep us on track about the feelings, the point we're at and it also makes it a sort of story-book kind of romance. We see the meeting before the credits too, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel sharing a look, a smile, nothing more, and it builds nicely, from a look at who Summer is, who Tom is, and a credit sequence shot like Super8 home videos of the two at different stages of life, it's rather brilliant and inventive, like a Romantic Comedy in the style of Crank. In that we have a dance sequence out of the blue that is random, funny and brilliant, side by side reality and expectation sequences, walking down a road from real life to a sketch, subtleties that really work wonders to keep the film fresh, consistent, interesting, but most important of all, heartfelt.

As we jump from happy times to the depressing there is an ecclectic mix of songs to enjoy, from The Smiths to The Doves, a magnificent script, which starts with a note that it's all fictional, then proceeds to call a woman a bitch, direction that is inspired, a time lapse sequence of sun going down as Tom sketches is just a thing of beauty, and lots of great gags, sweet moments, shocks, really upsetting parts, and all in all a full film that you'll want to enjoy and endure again and again.

The two writers and the director being male makes it interesting from a rom-com standpoint, more often than not at least one of the creative aspects is more feminine, this instead takes it on itself to be a cynical callous film that is a true romantic at heart, but can't fathom the downers that go along with the ideas of love.

Acting throughout is top notch, it's well edited to keep a solid pace throughout even if we're just re-watching scenes as we think, was it really that good a relationship, but ultimately it feels like it's too short, you want to spend more time with the characters, even if one really does seem to be a bitch by the end of it, it's an immense undertaking to change the rom com structure to fit the sadness, and the film handles it remarkably well.

You owe it to yourself to see it and watch what a true, non-Hollywood manufatured romance, is about.
(10)/10