"This is the story of a boy meets a girl, but you should know beforehand that this is not a love story" (Webb, 2009). Marc Webb's film (500) Days of Summer is an unconventional and unrequited story about love. Tom Hansen meets Summer Finn at work and immediately understands that she is the right girl for him. He takes viewers on a journey through the ups and downs of his ever-evolving relationship. Webb relies on editing, style and image to hold the viewer's interest. Production techniques and narrative are used to portray the thoughts, emotions and motivations of the two characters. In (500) Days of Summer, content and form work together to create a conventional film in post-modernist and post-classical Hollywood style. The romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer can be seen as a conventional post-classical Hollywood film based on the use of certain stylistic components. The film begins on day 488 when the audience is shown Summer wearing a wedding ring and smiling while holding Tom's hand. Viewers are then taken to the first day Tom meets Summer: “he knows almost immediately that she is the person he is looking for” (Webb, 2009). Because of the "break in continuity and flow of story information," the audience is tricked into thinking that things end happily even though the narrator warns them that this is not a love story (Cornell, Lesson #6) . After the opening credits, Tom is shown breaking dishes and through a flashback Summer is seen breaking up with Tom. “Fragmented” narrative is also a characteristic of postmodernist film (Grimshaw, 2013). This non-linear plot continues throughout the film as the audience is shown which day of Tom and Summer's relationship they are watching. Due to the unusual nature of the second and fourth of the narrative, t...... middle of paper... ..... The editing and narration draw the audience in as the story of a boy who meets a girl. Works Cited (500) Days of Summer. Dir. Marc Webb. Perf. Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. 20 Century Fox, 2009. Cartmell, Paul. “What is postmodern film?” WiseGeek. Conjecture, 13 December 2013. Web. 14 December 2013. .Cornell, Julian. “Lesson No. 6: New Hollywood and Post-Classical Cinema.” PowerPoint presentation.Grimshaw, Louise. “A Look at the Postmodern: (500) Days of Summer.” Filmophilia. Np, October 5, 2013. Web. December 14, 2013. .Walters, Stephanie. “Postmodernism in (500) Days of Summer (2009).” Np, March 20, 2010. Web. December 14. 2013. .