Just this past week, I saw #500DaysOfSummer trending on Twitter. Having both seen and enjoyed the movie, which was released 9 years ago, I thought I'd check out what was going on - if perhaps a sequel was in the mix. To my surprise, that wasn't the case at all. The hashtag surrounded a "great debate" regarding the film. Honestly, even after seeing the film a half dozen times, I had no idea what this "great debate" was until I clicked on the showcased link, featuring a quote by one of the two co-leads of the film, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who played the role of Tom Hansen. Levitt was quoted as basically saying the downfalls of he and Summer's relationship in the film (Summer played by Zooey Deschanel) were mainly his character's fault and people should stop criticizing Deschanel's character as being the main culprit. After looking through the thread, I read many Team Summer and Team Tom posts. Only a minority of the tweets declared both characters be...
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