(500) Days of Summer

My first impression when looking into the title of the movie that been shown to us during BEL 120 class is, I expected it to be a warm and happy love story because the word “summer”. As we know, summer is the time that most of people waits for, because it will be a holiday at that time. This movie is based on a spoilt relationship between a man that work as a writer at a greeting card company in Los Angeles, with the new worker of his company he working with. The event is shown according to the running of time starting of the first day till the 500^th day.

The moral value that I can detect in the movie is our life can change in a blink of time. Or life will keep changing even with small mistake or influence. In this movie, Tom Hansen, who is the main character have gloomy life, and tried to change it but the effort he give is not enough at all. One day, he meet the new worker, Summer Finn, at his working place during a meeting, who is the female lead of the story. Tom begin to feel that his life will change with the presence of the girl. A few month pass and their relationship grow. One day, tom hade a fight with a man that flirts with Summer, and at that time, they had their first argument. Result from that argument, Tom felt depressed and even his work is affected. He then, after having some advises from his younger sister, decided to quit his job and applying for the real work that he love the most.

The most interesting character that I like in this movie is Tom at twelve days after the 500 days period of his historical life. Tom manage to change his life and tried to applying for a job that he like. He like to be an architect as he was first trained to be. When attending the interview, he meet a girl name “Autumn”. It seem that they will have a good relationship later. As he managed to make a change in his life, he manage to be a better person. It shows that when problem cannot be solved in one way, trying to change the way to solve the problem may be affective. We just have to know how to change for our life.

For me, the movie teach us that life can be change if we know the right way to change it. This movie teach us to realize that not all things that we like, we will get it until we have tried many time to achieve it. This movie tell us that life is like a wheel. Sometimes we be on top, and sometimes, we will be on the bottom. Take the opportunities when there is some and try to adapt ourselves when our life is down.

In conclusion, this movie is not only about love, but it teach us how life goes by and how to adapt ourselves to play a good match and succeed in our life. We are the ones that can change our life.