I went out with my chambee mates last Friday. We just want to hang out and catch a movie after that. I suggested watching 500 Days of Summer as I had a feeling that it might be a good movie. All of us knew nothing about the movie and we want to keep it that way. I only know that Zooey Deschanel is in it and thats about it. Some of my friend wanted to first read the review from imdb to know whether it will be worth watching but I insisted that all of us should just take a chance and watch the movie without any expectation or any pre-conceived idea about it. I told them, if the movie is good, you will enjoy it more and if it isnt..jeng jeng jeng...matilah aku kena marah dgn diorang..hahaha. They, however give in to my suggestion. hehe.
We decided to watch the movie at a slightly later showtime so that we can really have a proper conversation with each other. Good ole way of gettin to know each other. Although we meet each other every day in the office, but due to workloads and our busy-ness, we didnt really get the chance to know each other. Hence, the dinner plan. We chose to have our dinner at San Francisco Steak House at KLCC.
There were 5 of us. Me, Sean, Hanna R, Ainaa and my "apprentice", Natalie. My my owh my, what a dinner conversation. We really talk and we really had a greaaaat dinner conversation. Remember watching one of those Woody Allen movies?? Yes, the conversation that we had was just like that. We really did talk! The topic of our conversation that night was of love and relationship (no surprises there) and it was so refreshing to hear them open up and really talk about it. All of us really did open up. We practically talked about every things that revolves around relationship.
Sean was in my opinion is emotionally mature for a 24 years old guy. His opinions and perspective about life and love is very Dr Phil like.hehehe. Too much Oprah I guess. His insight about relationship amazes me and if it does not change me, at least it makes me want to reconsider some of my own perspective and some of my own view of certain things. I cannot emphasize enough how much about relationship between guy and girl that we have explored that night. 5 people with 5 different personality and with even 5 totally different views of life shared their thoughts and a piece of mind. I must say the dinner was not only gastronomically satisfying, it was also emotionally fulfilling.
Then, we go watch the movie. I have only one word to describe the movie. *drum rolls* AMAZING!!!!! I was having so much fun. I really really really loveeeeeeee the movie. My goodness, it was fantastic. We were so glad that we watched it. 500 Days of Summer is sooo freakin good and I can't wait to watch it again rite after I step out of the cinema.
There is nothing new about the story line I must say. Boys meet girls. Girls meet boys. But the director Marc Webb managed to delve into the soul of the characters and make us root for them, understand them, care for them and most importantly, love them. We cheered for the character when they succeed and we cried when they failed. That's in my opinion is the benchmark of a good characterization in a movie. The audience need to feel for the characters potrayed and this movie excels at that.
The other thing that I really really like about this movie is the cinematography. It is so serene at times and so wonderfully "bright" in another. It implements the script very very very well and I am so glad that none of those shaky camera trick that is currently seem to be the in thing in recent movies was not in this one. Phew!!
Another great things about this movie is the soundtrack. Usually, when you watch a movie, the music and the songs used were heard but ignored. If the movie is not musical, the music was just there and thats it. It was entirely different with this one. I am loving the soundtrack so much. I can't help but wishing and thinking that I'd have to get the soundtrack cd of this movie even while I was watching it in the cinema.
I love the fact that this movie is so natural ( maybe due to the superb acting by the both leads) and it does not feel forced. You can't help but dream about certain thing (at least I do) while watching this lovely and beautiful movie.
The funny things is, or maybe the reason why me and my colleague seems to be enjoying the movie even more was that almost every single thing that we discussed during our dinner, ( yes, almost every single thing!!!) was potrayed in this movie! No kidding!!! We were basically looking at each other in the dark cinema thinking.. "Hey, we just talked about it!! " and "OMG!!! Thats exactly how you said that just now!!!" Pretty weird huh? It was as if, somebody recorded our dinner conversation and turned it into a screenplay!!! haha. What a co-incidence!! Life imitates art or art imitates life???
So, if you want to know what we talked about during our dinner, just watch this movie.hehehehe. I promise you, it will be worth it. While writing this, I promised myself that I will watch it again in the cinema. Sooooon. Mind you, it is on a limited release and you can only watch it in KLCC.
I could not stop talkin about this movie. It is the current IT movie in my mind at the moment. My housemates (Fido especially) is getting bored with my non stop rants about it. I am so sorry peeps, I just can't help it.
Above all, the number one reason why I am so in love with this movie is that I think it gives me hope. Hope of the O.N.E *wink*
*here are some of the screen caps from the movie*
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