"It's a boy meets girl story, but you should know upfront, it's not a love story" (Webb, 2009). The film (500) Days of Summer by Marc Webb is an unconventional and unrequited love story. Tom Hansen meets Summer Finn at work and instantly knows she's the girl for him. It takes viewers on a journey through the ups and downs of his ever-changing relationship. Webb relies on editing, style, and imagery to pique the viewer's interest. Production techniques and narration are used to depict the thoughts, emotions, and motivations of both characters. In (500) Days of Summer, content and form work together to create a conventional post-modernist, post-classical Hollywood style film. The romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer can be considered a conventional post-classical Hollywood film based on its use of certain stylistic elements. The film begins on Day 488 as the audience sees Summer wearing a wedding ring and smiling as she holds Tom's hand. Viewers are then taken to the first day in which Tom meets Summer: “he knows almost immediately that it is her he was looking for” (Webb, 2009). Due to the "break in continuity and flow of story information", the audience is tricked into believing that things end happily, even though the narrator warns them that it is not of a love story (Cornell, Lecture n°6). After the opening credits, Tom is shown breaking plates and, although a flashback, we see that Summer is breaking up with Tom. The “fragmented” narrative is also a characteristic of post-modernist cinema (Grimshaw, 2013). This non-linear storyline continues throughout the film as the audience sees which day of Tom and Summer's relationship they are watching. Due to the unusual nature of the narration's background, middle of paper ..... ..... The editing and narration draws the audience in as the story of a boy who meets a girl. Works Cited (500) Days of Summer. Real. Mark Webb. Perf. Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. 20 Century Fox, 2009. Cartmell, Paul. “What is postmodern cinema?” WiseGeek. Guess, December 13, 2013. Web. December 14, 2013. Cornell, Julian. “Lecture 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, Stéphanie. “Postmodernism in (500) Days of Summer (2009).” Np, March 20, 2010. Web. December 14. 2013. .