500 Days of Summer: Expectations vs. Reality

frick Summer, I rather Autumn.

One of the most brutal...and true scenes of all time.

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As much as I love the movie, I really hate the ending scene with Autumn.

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A friend of mine has suggested that he imagined that interaction with "Autumn". Like, it was just TOO perfect.

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It's true, so not brutal.

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You do know that something can be true and brutal at the same time, right? shite, when in your real life is something you perceive to be brutal not true? How often do you hear about false brutality? Read a dictionary sometime.

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Brutal is the unexpected.

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Seriously, here are the definitions of brutal:

a) savagely violent.

b) punishingly hard or uncomfortable.

c) direct and lacking any attempt to disguise unpleasantness.

So yeah, it meets definition B if not C. Unexpected has nothing to do with brutality. Would you not describe the Holocaust as brutal? If you were with the Allies, all you had to do was read Mein Kampf to know what Hitler was doing to the Jews during the war. Auschwitz wasn’t exactly unexpected but the worst fears of Hitler’s promises come true. Unexpectedness has nothing to do with brutality. As I said, read a dictionary sometime.

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No guy in his position would expect his expectations from Summer in that situation...after the story we've been told.

That's why it's not brutal. It's not out of nowhere or cruel...it was on the story arc.

Context matters when it comes to brutal not just gutteral protagonistic wishing.

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Really? You’ve never been in contact with an ex somewhat flirting with you, want to hang out, and then expect some sort of hookup or reconciliation? Are you like 17? Do have a penis? This is something most guys go through.

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because this wasn't unexpected.

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I pressed enter too early. fricking read sometime. You never find a definition of brutal that has unexpectedness be a part of it. Seriously, you’re captured by WWII Japanese and have known of their reputation for decades... but hey what they do to you isn’t brutal because you’re expecting them to chop you up slowly. Not brutal at all while you’re bleeding out for days because you knew this was going to happen. You’re an idiot.

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What was expected was the status quo between them notwhistandings his fantasies which were at the ropes end.

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Umm, no you don’t invite your ex to a party when you’ve been recently engaged. You want the unexpected, that is it. I’d be shocked if an ex did that to me and it would take me a while to get over it.

I’m not going to read through your stupid post, because actually the movie meets your definition of brutality. She invites him to a party where it’s revealed she’s been engaged. That’s unexpected. Like seriously, would you invite your ex who you know loves you to a party all to reveal you’re taken for good? That is startlingly unexpected. That is brutal and terrible to your ex to do that to them. That will cause 6 month downward spiral if you play with them that way and you’re fricking engaged, which the movie follows up on.

Rewatch the movie.

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It's brutal for him because he's delusional.

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So you think it’s socially acceptable to personally invite your ex that you broke up with and you know is still emotionally engaged with you to a party where you’re revealing you’re engaged? If any of my friends did that to a girl he had been dating, I’d slap the frick out of him for being a total dick.

Since you obviously haven’t seen or remember this movie (or possibly insane) here’s the clip the rest of us are talking about: LINK

But yeah he was totally delusional and totally asking for an engagement reveal, right? Maybe Summer was a total bitch that led him on.

Wow downvote in 2 seconds

She invited her ex that she broke up with on pretty civil terms, breaking his heart, all to reveal she was engaged. I would do this to my friend who would do the same thing: