After repeatedly seeing screen-caps and quotes from this movie on Tumblr.com, I felt the need to watch it.

So when I saw that the DVD was on sale in HMV for £8 last week, I snapped it up straight away.

I’d generally heard that it was beautiful, funny and original, but I never really thought it’d be that good. I mean, it was gonna be a typical story of ‘boy meets girl’, right?

Oh, how I was wrong. So very, very wrong.

I’ve always been a fan of Zooey Deschanel. For anyone who doesn’t know, Zooey is an icon of the independent film, the sister of the talented Emily Deschanel and also lead singer of indie music duo ‘She & Him’. All that and she’s gorgeous. They were onto a winner when they cast her.

Playing the boy who falls in love with Miss Deschanel who plays Summer in the movie is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. My cousin constantly talks about him and his beauty. (Never about his talent though, how shallow…) Anyway, I’ll always remember Mr. Gordon-Levitt from 90s smash sitcom ‘3rd Rock From the Sun’ and I always loved him then, so this pair as the lead roles pretty much wins.

I know what you’re thinking: rom-coms are generally always the same; boys meets girl, they fall in love, boy does something stupid to lose girl, boy does something even more stupid to try and win her back, boy succeeds and they live happily ever after. However, this rom-com is definitely an exception.

I won’t tell you what happens in the film, but the tagline is ‘Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn’t.’ Make from that what you will.

Aside from the plot, some of the ideas for the filming of this movie is simply poetic. For example, one segment shows a split screen. One screen is titled ‘Expectation’ and the other is titled ‘Reality’. You then see a situation unfold differently, according to their titles. Sounds stupid, but it is incredibly original and definitely one of the highlights.

I’m always a fan of visuals in films. (Remember my review of musical movie ‘Nine’?) This film, although it is set in the 21st century, has a look and feel of the 1960s about it. A lot of it is filtered with undertones of a light brown light and the beauty of Deschanel resembles that of only the most beautiful classic actress.

Supporting this old-age look is the impossibly brilliant soundtrack, with tracks from The Smiths, Regina Spektor and even from Zooey’s little folk band ‘She & Him’. You may not be into this music, but if you class yourself as a bit of an indie kid, then you’ll love it.

So yeah, if I did have to describe this film, it would be with the words ‘beautiful’, ‘funny’ and ‘original’, just like those fans previously said. Damn, I hate being proved wrong.

Overall Rating:

10 out of 10.