If there is one thing everybody gets, it’s relationships. Whether you’re beautiful, smart and funny or you’re odd, unattractive and well, like I said, odd, we all have been in what we thought was love at one point or another. Whether or not it was real is irrelevant. We’ve all hit love’s ups and downs and most importantly it’s nothingness, which is when we ultimately know it’s no longer love. In “(500) Days of Summer,” we get a refreshing and much more animated look back at what we thought was the happiest point in our lives.

It starts on a random day, Day (388) I believe. Summer (Zooey Deschanel) has just left Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), and he shuffles around like a broken-hearted zombie.

We then begin to travel throughout the relationship like an Alejandro Iñárritu film — only a lot less depressing. Although Tom doesn’t have the balls to make the first move, Summer is bolder and approaches him in what becomes a sexy copy room session, thus beginning the start of what Tom thinks is a relationship and what Summer hesitates to label — for good reason.

As time goes forward and backward, we begin to see that maybe everything isn’t as perfect as Tom thinks, and he has to decide whether he truly believes she is the love of his life, and if it’s worth getting her back.

“(500) Days of Summer” is a great film because it takes fundamentals to the next level and beyond. It accomplishes all the necessary tasks to make a film work, then invents new ways to do so. This is in large part due to the very fun and very accurate writing of Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber.

However, we can’t forget Marc Webb. In his first feature-length film he has gained what Tim Burton has failed to in years, my respect — not that it means much. He uses brilliant techniques in dreamy scenes that are based off of ’50s and ’60s French cinema, avant garde cinema and there is even a hilarious scene that feels like it’s straight out of a Disney film.

Zooey Deschanel has once again stolen my heart with her big blue eyes, not to mention a rather genuine performance as the love interest and antagonist.

I’m glad to see a boom in Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s career and I think it would be safe to assume he will only continue to gain popularity after moviegoers get the pleasure to see his funny, depressing and joyful performance as Tom.

I went into the theater and 95 minutes later I had just seen one of my favorite films of the year. This is the best film of it’s category that I’ve seen since “Love Actually.” I try to hide the fact that I enjoy some romantic comedies, but with romantic comedies like this, I no longer have to.