Greetings again from the darkness. The narrator warns us upfront ... this is not a love story. Still, we are so preconditioned by Hollywood, that directive merely floated around in my head until near the end of the film when I realized it was perfectly accurate.

Joseph Gordon-Levit and Zooey Deschanel are the leads and each bring a certain quirkiness and sensitivity to their roles. Watching them grow as a couple just never quite clicks for the viewer the way it does for JGL's character. He buys in hook, line and sinker and believes his destiny for love is being fulfilled by Summer (Zooey).

Director Marc Webb throws a bit of everything at us - just to prove this is not a traditional love story. We get the fun of memory blender - flashbacks like Day 488, Day 2, Day 159 - well you get the point. That is how most of us remember anyway: non-linear. We also get a funny musical number in the park, a b & w Bergmanesque dramatization, and a leading man whose poetic musings are limited to his writing quips for a greeting card company. Oh, he also takes love advice from his 11 year old soccer-playing sister (Chloe Moretz),but wisely declines most of it from his best friend played by sexist, drunken (and funny) co-worker, Geoffrey Arend.

What I really like about the film is that it is different, yet very realistic. So often our "dream" girl is just not quite a fit in this world, yet she and the next guy are just right. Doesn't seem fair, but in reality, it is not only fair, but perfectly just. And remember, there is always another season ... maybe Autumn?

Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is always looking for the one. Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel) doesn't believe in love since her parents' divorce. The narration explains that "This is not a love story". The movie moves in a non-linear timeline. His sister Rachel (Chloë Grace Moretz),McKenzie (Geoffrey Arend),and Paul (Matthew Gray Gubler) are his friends. Summer is the new assistant to his boss Vance (Clark Gregg) in his greeting card workplace and he falls head over heals.

Zooey is the 'It' girl and JGL is playing the adorable leading man. Zooey is a great fantasy girlfriend. They make a fine rom-com couple or in this case, the anti-rom-com couple. The non-linear structure and the serious narration give it a fantasy feel. It's offbeat in tone and in structure. It's not dripping in realism but it is loads of fun. Music video director Marc Webb brings a different sensibility to this traditional genre.

In Los Angeles, the architect Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) works writing greeting cards. When the romantic Tom sees the newcomer assistant Summer Finn (Zoey Deschanel) in the office, he immediately has a crush on her. A couple of months later, they start to date each other but Summer tells him that she does not believe in love and they are just friends; but Tom is sure that Summer is the woman of his life. When they break their relationship, Tom's younger sister Rachel (Chloe Moretz) advises him to forget Summer. In the end, he discovers that after Summer, there is Autumn.

"(500) Days of Summer" is an overrated romance disclosed in non- chronological sequence. The screenplay uses the idea of "Przypadek" with the Expectation and Reality of Tom and Summer reunion in the roof party. Zoey Deschanel is very sweet and beautiful performing a hypocrite character and shows a great chemistry with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but the unexpected conclusion of their boring romance is totally disappointing. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "(500) Dias com Ela" ("(500) Days with Her")