It was the Indie movie that came out in 2009 that all your friends quickly became obsessed with. It has two actors that most people would agree in calling close to perfect, Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. And it's also one of the truest movies you could ever watch in your life, and a movie that really every college student needs to see.

500 Days of Summer tells you it's not a love story right from the beginning, which sets up the viewer to endure the struggling relationship that occurs between Tom (Gordon-Levitt) and Summer (Deschanel) while simultaneously wanting to reach into the screen and prevent either of them from meeting each other in the first place. Tom is a hopeless romantic, "not believing he'll truly be happy until he meets the one" (people who think this way: NO). And Summer is a child of divorce and has become cynical towards love. The two meet at work and Tom instantly becomes infatuated. It's at the point where he's analyzing "hey" versus "hi" with his friends. (I think we've all been there before, unfortunately). He thinks they're soulmates because they both like the band, The Smiths. Basically, he's in very, very deep. Eventually, his crush becomes known, Summer states from the beginning she's not looking for something serious. SPOILER ALERT: They end up casually dating and Summer eventually breaks up with Tom, breaks his heart, and becomes engaged to someone else. And then Tom falls into a deep sadness that anyone who has ever had their heart broken can empathize with.

So, while the plot isn't super original, it does something that most romantic comedies don't do: having real emotions. When Tom and Summer start their casual relationship, Tom can't understand how Summer is "keeping it casual" when she is choosing to sleep with him, because to some people, hooking up without serious feelings doesn't make sense. And when Tom asks Summer if she will change her mind about him the next day after a fight, she told him she couldn't promise that her feelings wouldn't change, and that nobody could promise him that. I think it's safe to say in college that we are struggling to find ourselves and how we relate to others, so it can be hard to get a secure relationship. Tom wanted more than Summer was willing to give him, and while it is easy to just blame Summer for sucking, and to quote the queen of heartbreak, TSwift, Summer is "so casually cruel in the name of being honest" when she tells Tom how with her husband she is sure of everything she wasn't with Tom (major ouch moment, not necessary at all, just saying) sometimes we just don't click with a person, and while it may hurt them, ultimately if it's not right for you, it's not right for you. Summer did break Tom's heart, but he sort of also did it to himself when he put her on such a high pedestal. After everything was all said and done, everything Tom loved about Summer started to become negative attributes of hers.

Obviously, Tom had the right to be hurt. He tries dating again and fails miserably when he talks about Summer with his date, he drinks a crap ton, and he just isn't himself. Luckily, he has great friends to surround himself with, and the best little sister in the form of Chloe Grace Moretz (she brings Tom vodka and boosts his ego by telling him all her friends think he's hot). And in the end, Tom and Summer meet coincidentally in a park, he tells her he hopes she's happy, and they part ways, which is the right thing to do in the end. Then at the end of the movie, Tom meets Autumn (Minka Kelly) who had been noticing him at the park for a while when he was wallowing, and they agree to grab coffee.

This movie is the best and the worst, truly. You get to watch to watch a relationship that was doomed from the start, and even though it wasn't a good relationship, the hurt is still very real. Tom is an extremely relatable character, because he really thought Summer was a great person and someone he could see a future with. I think most viewers would take Tom's side more, because Summer wasn't as nice as she could have been when she ended it, but she's not the worst character.

College students need to watch this because it's hard to date in college. It really is. Yeah, you go to school with a bunch of other students who are within your age range, but things don't always fall into place. Casual hookups just remain that, people cheat, people stop responding to your texts, people break your heart, and you blame yourself. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a good-looking, smart, relatively nice guy, and he seems to forget that after Summer breaks his heart. And he stays focused on Summer, when she wasn't that great ( I'm not her biggest fan, sorry Summer, you're kinda basic) when he seems to have forgotten his past heartbreaks, just because this one is so fresh and new. And we forget that this hurt might not be new, but because it's happening right now, it doesn't feel like it will go away, but it will. Tom met someone else, someone else who is probably better than Summer, and so will you.