"This is not a love story...", we were forewarned early in the movie. By gosh! How joyful was the ride all throughout the movie, as it continued to defy expectations over expectations.
Now, here's a movie that was never too assuming nor self-conceited. This is a movie that relies largely on a well told tale of a 'relationship' between two human beings longing for companionship, outlayed and narrated in a non-linear style, beyond the norms of a normal mainstream Hollywood quickies.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Tom Hansen, a hopeless romantic, who could have been an Architect but opted to become a Copywriter instead because he just figured, "why make something disposable like a building when you can make something that last forever, like a greeting card".
One fine day, Tom met "the girl of his dreams" when he meets Summer (played by the beautiful Zooey Deschanel). Good thing for Tom, he fell head over heals with Summer. But unfortunately for him, Summer's feelings for him was not reciprocal. Therein lies the twists, turns and emotional upheavals that made the movie uniquely different from the rest of the other comedies.
Director, Marc Webb, did a wonderful job by truly capturing the feeling of an innocent and naïve romance, and blending them with some depressing and heart-wrenching moments, with underlying humoristic tones. Bottomline, he's telling us not to take love so seriously, especially wehen we are young, until we decide to really, really be with someone for the rest of our lives. Anything can happen along the way.
The movie's strengths are expounded through the emotional scenes, with very little dialogues between the two main characters, played so endearingly well by Gordon-Levitt and Deschanel. Thanks to their chemistry, there were some truly, truly wonderful and subtle moments of love and tenderness that were so real and never came across as corny and untactful.
It's been a while since I last came across a Romantic Comedy of this nature.
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