The best way to get over a woman is to turn her into literature
-a character quoting Henry Miller in (500) Days of Summer
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(500) Days of Summer, despite its sometimes annoying preciousness, is actually a good film. Until that fucked-up, cop-out ending. (SPOILERS!) Why should he get over Summer? Why couldn’t he be miserable all his life and be angry at her forever? Why should he move on?
Common sense is not only uncommon, non-universal and context-specific, it is also a product of a dominant rhetoric that remains unchallenged and that gets reproduced by our uncritical acceptance of it. Subversion #7: Resist!
