Life in Dual colors

7.21.2013

No such thing as coincidence @ 11:16 AM

"People don't realize this, but loneliness is underrated."

So yet again, I was able to watch one of this generation's masterpiece, both visually and artistically, "500 days of Summer". It may sound over rated but what ever, I guess what I'm just trying to say is that I really did enjoy the movie. It was raw and real. plus the fact that I was full visually, and musically, must I just mention that I've fallen in love with their soundtrack, the moment they played Temper Trap's Sweet Disposition. Anyways, I just really enjoyed the movie, and it'll probably make it to my all time favorites,

Now for those not familiar with the movie's plot line is, well I shall borrow a couple of lines from the film's narration; " this is a story about boy meets girl, but you should know upfront that this is not a love story". short and yet true. Though the movie gave us a taste of bliss with the early beginnings of a relationship, it also gave us a view of how bittersweet things are once we hit downhill.

I never really realized why I love the movie so much, I thought it was because of how breath takingly beautiful Zoey Deschannel is, then there's the adorkable Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I thought it was because of the writing, how raw and pure it was, you just felt that the writer was coming from somewhere when he decided to write the piece. Then there's the visuals, I just really enjoyed the graphics and animations the film had, never had I seen a film spectacle that had these kinds, not till Jim Carrey's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Only tonight did I understand why.

It was because of Tom Hansen, I loved him not because he was the lead character, or because he was the under dog. I loved him because of how dualistic he was in the film. We all saw his optimistic side, how his happiness exuded during his run with Summer. And we cried with him, the time moment Summer left. Once or twice we have identified ourselves with Tom, whether we were naive and optimistic or angry and depressed.

Once, we found ourselves thinking how beautiful falling in love is, how beautiful the idea is of sharing a connection with someone. How wonderful it is to wake up to someone, knowing that there going be there with you, holding your hand for the rest of time. Suddenly you realize that you can do everything, that you can easily shrug away whatever gray clouds life gives you. Suddenly you tell yourself that you can face whatever life throws at you. Suddenly you know in yourself that for once, your happy and fulfilled.

Then things don't go as plan, and you find yourself on the wrong side of the road. Now you re suddenly depressed, angry and frustrated. You've lost your belief in life and in people. You've lost your trust in the world and worst of all in love.

I think that's why people identified themselves with Tom, it was just impossible to not like him. Specially since you shared a part of yourself with him.

Now, I guess I share a part of myself with him. I've lost my belief in these cheesy things, I've started believing that in life nothing's permanent, so why even get into something that isn't permanent right? Why go through that kind of pain, when you can save yourself from the hurt. Yes I know that its crap, but things have been so crazy lately, and I don't really know if i can still handle this kind of pain.

I don't know if were on the same page right now. heck I don't really know if you can understand me, But all I know is we can both save each other from this kind of pain. We both fear the pain so why bother. All I know is that in the short amount of time I'm getting to know you, is that I'm slowly discovering how alike we are. I don't really know where this leaves us, if there's even an us.

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