#summerfinn

[fayegalore]

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Classic quote from the movie #500daysofsummer #zoeydeschanel #josephgordonlevitt #bestmovie #summerfinn https://www.instagram.com/p/CBY8hmzhhwd/?igshid=llerdg75bl4g

[adrixu]

“La mayoría de los días del año son intrascendentes, comienzan y terminan sin que suceda algo memorable, la mayoría de los días no tienen impacto en el curso de una vida. Si algo aprendió Tom, es que no le puedes atribuir un significado cósmico o un simple evento terrenal. ¿Coincidencia? Eso es lo que siempre es, nada más que una coincidencia. Tom finalmente había aprendido que no hay milagros, no existe lo que llamamos destino, nada tiene que ser. Lo supo. Ahora estaba seguro, Tom era… estaba bastante seguro.” 🌳☀️🌳☀️🌳☀️🌳☀️🌳☀️🌳☀️ #tattoo #500DaysOfSummer #500DiasJuntos #tatuaje #SummerFinn #TomHansen #ZooeyDeschanel #JosephGordonLevitt #TheSmiths #todiebyyourside #todiebyyoursideissuchaheavenlywaytodie #thereisalightthatnevergoesout #Ilovethesmiths #ilovethem (en Trece Tattoo Málaga) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4mvxPQqiJX/?igshid=l9llas454fyh

[arturolopezrossell]

Greatest Villain Ever: Summer Finn #summerfinn #500daysofsummer #zoeydeschanel

[odcfloats]

Summer Finn- The enigma

Before I attempt to settle this unsettling character, let me tell you that I (like many of you) have been in an epiphanic relationship with Summer Finn since the first time I watched ‘500 days of Summer’. Oh! She is a wonder. She sets the stage like a magician, ready for her act, and performs her tricks, keeping it ambiguous, is quite a spectacle. A wonderful magic show. I have been to her ‘magic shows’ quite frequently, and now her tricks do not surprise me much, but interestingly, they still remain ambiguous. Now I begin to see a pattern but still do not find a complete picture. Perhaps, she was never a complete painting. Our relationship evolves over time and effort where she is new every month but her tricks remain the same.

Summer Finn is dream-like. She even sounds like a dream when her angelic voice flirts with the melodies of Sugar Town. Her eyes twinkle, her intentions linger and her dressing sense is peculiar. The bangs that cover her forehead, the ribbon that holds her dark brown hair, the girlish frocks from the 60s that remind you of a little girl singing a nursery rhyme make it clear that at Summer Finn is a girl . She is not peculiar because she looks different but because she chooses to look so typical. Her looks should not surprise you but her charm could simply arrest any boy next door. Now wait a second – Is she as simple and typical as she seems to be, or is it the master magician at work, setting the stage to her act?

‘500 days of Summer’ shows Summer through Tom’s expectations. Tom, with his one sided love, ever ready to jump off a cliff for her, is a hopeless case since Day 1. He thinks of her as how he wanted her to be, an daydream personified. Summer plays hide and seek with his vulnerability as she asks him, “Do you like me?” and after a slow but resounding “yes”, she proceeds, “Just as friends?” Tada! Now the tricks begin- She kisses him the next day, they kiss again in Ikea, and while she makes it clear that she only wants for a casual relationship, the supposedly ‘detached Summer’ holds his hand and sleeps with him. On the other hand, Tom finds serenity in her “knobby knees”, ” her heart-shaped birthmark on her neck” and “the sound of her laugh”. Once you are almost convinced that she is a tease and a heartbreaker, she unfolds herself to Tom. She talks about her dreams and loneliness. She even fights the rain to console a miserable Tom who is unable to find consistency in the relationship. They kiss even more as they unravel each other’s imperfections. She asks him not to leave her and calls him a ‘best friend’.

We know that Summer loved her long black hair, but equally loved cutting them.

She found numbness in attachment and failed to identify the possible consequences of her actions. Growing up with estranged parents, she found relationships meaningless and messy. But, here she was in someone’s arms, sharing her unblemished thoughts and having sex with a boy who loved her unconditionally, and loved her more and more every single day. She still did not know how to steal warmth. In fact, she was too comfortable with her ‘I don’t knows’. Here, she becomes more than an illusion. We get a peep inside her life and she is not a simple character. In fact, we might know her more than the smitten Tom might. She was an enigma, not because Tom had no control over his emotions, but because she was so unpredictable as a person. We do not know her only through a delusional one-sided lover but also through our own eyes, (Summer loved her long black hair but equally loved cutting them) yet she baffles us enough to be able to connect the dots about her. In fact, it feels like even the writers did not wish to attain her. Did they give a fragmented character too much of autonomy in the name for her unpredictability?

As told before, she was never a complete picture. However, one needs to ask, to what extent can we have so many gaps unfilled in a character? In the second half, Summer is nothing like we or Tom knew her before. Yes, it was convincing when she began to question what she was doing with Tom. It was not a part of her plans to play with attachment and she realized she was hurting Tom. Then things change so drastically that poor Tom, and we, are left clueless. One fine day, she is in love and engaged to someone who approached her while she was reading Dorian Grey. The writers seem to normalize her behaviour when she talks of her epiphany about coincidence- what would have happened had she not read the book that day and had gone to watch a movie instead. She said, “I just woke up one day and I knew, what I was never sure off with you (Tom)”. Now, it was not exactly nonsensical given the idyllic nature of the character, but I feel there was the absence of the sense it was trying to make. For once, let us go with her character and believe her sudden enlightenment but then why would she hold his hand again? What should the audience believe in?

Nothing.

Perhaps that was the entire point the movie was trying to make. Summer was more than a lover’s point of view. She was in bits and pieces and fragments, some parts of which were yet to be found.

As I mentioned , Summer remains a spectacle, but perhaps more as a symbol than a character. She is the tiny tornado that creates havoc in any sensitive heart. She is that effect more than the agent that causes it. She is the representation of that impalpability love brings. She reminds you more of a feeling than a person. Perhaps, she is lost in the fragments that are yet to complete her.

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[rechirich]

Introduce her self. A future mom, Gwyneth Cooper.

[rechirich]

The Killers - Smile Like You Meow It.

[imtheincredibleabsorbingman]

Color my life with the chaos of trouble.

Belle and Sebastian