Hello you and welcome to You Are Good of Feelings Podcast about Movies. Today we're talking about 500 days of summer.

I'm one of your hosts Alex Steed and I will soon be joined by my marvelous co-host Sarah Marshall.

You Are Good is a podcast in which we,

often with a guest, sometimes not, talk about a movie

and then we unpack the feelings that it brings out in us or the various kind of human experiences the movie represents and what our experiences have been in that arena.

It's not criticism.

It's using a movie as a lens to understand a little bit better what it is like to be a person who is alive in the world.

500 Days of Summer is a 2009 American romantic comedy film.

It stars Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zoe

de Chanel and employs a nonlinear structure and the story is based upon its

male protagonist and his memories of a failed relationship.

We picked this one because we are in and around Valentine's Day and we sort of threw out

a handful of titles that people talk about with regard to sort of interesting takes on romantic endeavors.

This one came up. I had never seen it before and you know we often talk about movies where we're talking about someone's like favorite movie

and why it's their favorite and what it speaks to in and with them.

And in this case, I don't know that this is either of our favorite movie.

But it certainly provided an interesting launch pad for talking about all sorts of things that are both represented in the movie and sort of, you know, human tendencies, let's say.

So we had a good time with this one.

I hope that you enjoy it.

Tony is walking into the room.

Tony, the cat, just pushed the door open.

He's making his entrance.

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