Anyone who doesn't realize both these characters are flawed is missing the point.
Idk how a live action movie managed to be so realistic and compelling yet with so many surreal and bonkers aspects. The editing and directing here is amazing. The writing is just as amazing. 2 leads are some of the most realistically portrayed humans of all time. Great acting, humor, emotion, bleakness, bittersweet moments, happiness, revelations, all of it blends together for greatness.
I had Summer's personality completely figured out after the first dinner scene. You could tell she was scared of human connection because she knows it's hard & rare for love to last and she doesn't wanna be hurt or hurt others so she shuts herself off from others immediately. I knew from the beginning that she actually does believe she can love or fall in love, but she is just looking for the right person that she can actually do that with. She dips her foot in the water(such as her finally caving and kissing him in the copy room). She puts up the front for her potential candidates by saying she doesn't want to get serious in case she indeed doesn't fall in love with them, but you can tell that she is always in the lookout for her "soulmate", and what do you know by the end of the movie she found it.
I have to say Summer is right and I agree with her, but she went about everything in the most wrong way possible. Hiding her true feelings, not telling him about her relationship and getting his hopes back up, knowingly allowing him to fall in love with her even though she knows he isn't the one, gaslighting him by saying they're just friends or not in a relationship yet doing literally everything a relationship would do just so she could be happy for the time being.
Tom was definitely a good person, but he also had way too high of expectations and was trying to force something that wasn't there. That wasn't completely his fault, but him going to the party she invited him to with those expectations confirmed his true problem. Even when she warned him up front he had the optimism he could possibly be the one to make her love him. He did just about everything the average person with a crush who's falling in love would do.
They both had their flaws, and I agree with Summer's view on things, but she absolutely went about things the wrong way.
This movie is so real because many relationships in real life are just means to an end. She was selfishly using him for short term emotional fulfillment. She was also a means to an end for him, he just didn't know it at the time. His experience with her taught him that things just click and sometimes people are in your life just to further your goals such as him being pushed by her to finally become an architect like he truly wanted. They learned about themselves from each other and will use this experience later in their lives.
No matter how right she was, she was absolutely a slime ball about it and kind of got away with it. Props to her for coming out of her nihilism and depression and fear of human connection, but definitely at somewhat of a cost for Tom. He did learn from it though and gain new perspective and their reconciliation was nice. She definitely taught him something.
This movie was definitely inspired by Neon Genesis Evangelion. Summer's personality was ripped right out of that show along with some of the editing at times being similar to the final 2 episodes of the original series.
This movie was also definitely an inspiration for La La Land, as the themes and lessons for both movies are very similar.
Idk how a live action movie managed to be so realistic and compelling yet with so many surreal and bonkers aspects. The editing and directing here is amazing. The writing is just as amazing. 2 leads are some of the most realistically portrayed humans of all time. Great acting, humor, emotion, bleakness, bittersweet moments, happiness, revelations, all of it blends together for greatness.
I had Summer's personality completely figured out after the first dinner scene. You could tell she was scared of human connection because she knows it's hard & rare for love to last and she doesn't wanna be hurt or hurt others so she shuts herself off from others immediately. I knew from the beginning that she actually does believe she can love or fall in love, but she is just looking for the right person that she can actually do that with. She dips her foot in the water(such as her finally caving and kissing him in the copy room). She puts up the front for her potential candidates by saying she doesn't want to get serious in case she indeed doesn't fall in love with them, but you can tell that she is always in the lookout for her "soulmate", and what do you know by the end of the movie she found it.
I have to say Summer is right and I agree with her, but she went about everything in the most wrong way possible. Hiding her true feelings, not telling him about her relationship and getting his hopes back up, knowingly allowing him to fall in love with her even though she knows he isn't the one, gaslighting him by saying they're just friends or not in a relationship yet doing literally everything a relationship would do just so she could be happy for the time being.
Tom was definitely a good person, but he also had way too high of expectations and was trying to force something that wasn't there. That wasn't completely his fault, but him going to the party she invited him to with those expectations confirmed his true problem. Even when she warned him up front he had the optimism he could possibly be the one to make her love him. He did just about everything the average person with a crush who's falling in love would do.
They both had their flaws, and I agree with Summer's view on things, but she absolutely went about things the wrong way.
This movie is so real because many relationships in real life are just means to an end. She was selfishly using him for short term emotional fulfillment. She was also a means to an end for him, he just didn't know it at the time. His experience with her taught him that things just click and sometimes people are in your life just to further your goals such as him being pushed by her to finally become an architect like he truly wanted. They learned about themselves from each other and will use this experience later in their lives.
No matter how right she was, she was absolutely a slime ball about it and kind of got away with it. Props to her for coming out of her nihilism and depression and fear of human connection, but definitely at somewhat of a cost for Tom. He did learn from it though and gain new perspective and their reconciliation was nice. She definitely taught him something.
This movie was definitely inspired by Neon Genesis Evangelion. Summer's personality was ripped right out of that show along with some of the editing at times being similar to the final 2 episodes of the original series.
This movie was also definitely an inspiration for La La Land, as the themes and lessons for both movies are very similar.