Just watched "500 days of Summer".

It was good, not great.

Starring Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levit.

She plays the more mature and and sophisticated girlfriend. He plays the less mature and sophisticated boyfriend.

SPOILERS !!!

She initiates the relationship because he is too immature and unsophisticated. They love each other and have fun together. Eventually she becomes bored and breaks up. He is devastated because he doesn't know the golden rule of dating - you don't want to be with anybody who doesn't want to be with you.

She tells him during the relationship she doesn't believe in love or marriage. But shortly after breaking up with him, she gets married.

There is a great scene at the end of the movie. Months after she gets married, he has been single. He quit his job. She never liked him settling for a less challenging career as a greetings card writer. She always wanted him to pursue his passion for architecture (so cliche - architecture. I guess the only romantically attractive job any man can have in Hollywood is to be an architect.)

(Also it is stupid to quit any job without having another lined up. This guy is living in New York with no job. But yet he can afford to buy new better clothes and study architecture.)

Anyway, after another hard day of looking for an architecture job, he is sitting at his favorite spot overlooking three buildings he admires. And she calls out to him. She says she thought he might be there. He asks her, "You told me you didn't believe in love and marriage. And soon after dumping me, you get married?" She says, "I know. I was more surprised than anybody." He ask, "Why? What does this guy have that I didn't have? What do you two have that we didn't have?" She responds, "Something I knew I would never have with you."

He is dumbfounded because he is still less mature and sophisticated than she. So he says nothing. She grabs his hand and squeezes it as if to say, "I love you. I always did. We had fun. It just didn't work out."

He says nothing trying to comprehend this. She gets up and says, "I need to be going." She walks away. Then she turns around and smiles as if to say, "I hope we can still be friends."

Anyway, that is my interpretation. Zooey Deschanel is great in this. I guess Joseph Gordon-Levit is too, playing the obviously less mature and sophisticated boyfriend.

(There is another Hollywood cliche in here. The older guy getting relationship advice throughout the movie from a pubescent girl. I guess this is Hollywood saying females are innately better at relationships. Never been my experience.)