Could you recommend any rom-com-(drama) without convenient happy ending?
Something closer to real life.
share500 days of summer.
share500 days of summer.
Riiiight. Because Zooey's character is SO realistic and the ending (Autumn?) is what happens to like, everyone once they have been through a heartache. share
What's so unrealistic about Zooey's character?
And Autumn was completely realistic. People break their relationships and sooner or later find someone new, this is why most people that have boyfriends/girlfriends also have exes.
Everything. MPDG characters are not exactly realistic.
As for Autumn, yeah, meeting somebody whose name is next in calendar after you've been heartbroken by Summer is also totally realistic. Come on. Btw, people who ask recommendations for similar films maybe haven't seen the movie, and this is not 500 Days board so you might want to be considerate and mark spoilers.
I'm not sure if Summer can be classified as a MPDG, but if she's one, it doesn't mean she's unrealistic. She was an average cute girl being idealized by Tom the same way many young and inexperienced guys idealize their crushes, her perfection is an illusion held by Tom and nothing more. At the end, he realizes he should grow up and have other goals, which many people learn after a not so good experience.
The fact that her name was Autumn might not be realistic, but it is a metaphor for a situation that is: a bad love experience is not the end of the world, sooner or later someone else might come. Also, we don't know how his relationship with her is gonna be, it might work or it might be a new mess.
All in black, satisfied now?
OK, I think she is an MPDG, but to each their own. My point is, idealising that kind of girl (so quirky, so fun, so different -- she's not represented in any way as 'ordinary' by societal standards) is what makes it unrealistic even more. He didn't idealise some grocery store check-out girl next door. Things they did together and how it was represented is not the usual way people spend time with each other. In that regard, I find The F Word more realistic and Zoe's character much more close to real life (even though some of the dialogue was super contrived and intentionally funny -- rarely in real life will you see people conversing like that).
All in black, satisfied now?
No need to be snide, I hate spoilers; I think there should be a special circle in Hell made for those who spoil books/shows/films and I act accordingly. It was an innocent remark. :) share