8 Great Movies Told By Liars

8. (500) Days Of Summer

(500) Days of Summer toys with the often skewed depiction of romance in its narrative, playing out as a young man named Tom works his way through a relationship with the effervescent Summer - thinking he's found his soul mate in the woman that loves the same music as him. The film plays out seemingly as his devotion and love to a woman that treats his coldly and unfairly, but looking deeper reveals another narrative that the film's star himself has often pointed out as being overlooked.

(500) Days of Summer isn't so much an unrequited love story as it is the tale of a selfish man attempting to get what he wants, despite the people around Tom telling him the things he's doing wrong. He's belligerent and infatuated, pasting the image of what he wants Summer to be over who she actually is in a remarkable break down of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope that Zooey Deschanel always seems to find herself in.

Since the film is told from his perspective, we're inclined to sympathise with Tom's desperation - but underneath the tale of love and rejection that he romanticises for the benefit of a visual story, there's a man looking for purpose that won't find it in another person. He lies to himself as much as he does to us through his film.