500 Days of Summer (2009)
Director: Marc Webb
Synopsis: Tom Hansen tells his unconventional love story in 500 Days of Summer. The movie jumps around the 500 days he knew her, reliving the high and the low points.
Rationale: I chose this movie because it’s a rom com but “it’s not a love story”. I love when movies defy genre expectations and from the first scene’s insistence that it is not a love story, to the jumping, unstable timeline, the movie talks about love but doesn’t have to tie it together in a neat, hollywood, happily-ever-after bow. I chose this scene itself because it powerfully shows the feeling of expectations not meeting reality using purely cinematic elements and little dialogue.