(500)+Days+of+Summer

The film I watched was 500 days of summer because like our film it is a romantic comedy that is extremely awkward. To start I think that this movie plays with feminism by twisting around the roles of the female and the male. Typically we would imagine that the female would believe in love and fairy tales but it is flipped around with the male believing in love and the female thinking it does not exist although at the end its changes. The female also plays a highly dominant role in the film where the male is running after her the entire film and she slowly pulls away. The reason also goes along with feminist in the fact that the female is setting the tone of their relationship while the male is going along with it. There is not much that is visible about this film and its Marxist theory although through the film you see that all the characters are around the same social classes and have the same economic status. It seems to take place in a world were everyone is around the same level. In the film the director goes back through the film and analyzes in through a Freudian mindset. He shows each event emphasizing a certain side of what is happening like the female characters avoidance or love. This also plays with cognitive because it consciously triggers things in the viewer’s brain through subconsciously analyzed things. For example they go back to a scene where they show them having fun at a vinyl store but they show the scene again but the next time she gives small signs that she is not having fun. Mimetically I could see that this film could influence people towards romantic feelings and cathartically make people feel better about the selves both because of the warmer ending.