I don’t mind that he didn’t learn his lesson. My problem is that he never realized what a jerk he is while also finding his passion for architecture again and meeting a new women. Do we need another movie about a shitty man who is further rewarded? He see Summer’s personal growth and she isn’t even the main character.

“The ending really doesn’t have anything to do with that theme or change it in any way.”

I agree 100%, but there is a change in the cycle this time. The new woman Tom meets at the end of the movie, Autumn, breaks her plans to have coffee with him. We all know ‘nice guys’. We even know ‘nice guys’ who are in relationships and married and we wonder, how is she with him? It’s because there are smart,…

The entire point then becomes completely undermined when Tom learns nothing from his relationship with Summer then goes on to meet another beautiful woman who breaks her plans to get coffee with him.

But that isn’t why she breaks up with him. She was never ever into him in a monogamous way. She never felt like that. Even if he didn’t treat her like an accessory, she just wasn’t into him for anything other than being casual.

But he continues to be a shitty guy, is completely unaware of his problematic ways, and meets a new woman who breaks her plans to have coffee with him.

“Well...seems like some of us got it just fine, lol.”

He doesn’t lose her bc he treated her like an accessory. He never had her. She liked him but didn’t feel about him like he felt about her. She just wanted to casually date. He was all in from the get go.

True story. My friend (around 22 at the time) went to see Closer with his parents (old school Boston types) one time when he went back home for a visit. He had no idea it would be so explicit. He said he pretended to be sleeping for much of the movie. Very uncomfortable to say the least.

I don’t think anyone should have to depend on JGL’s opinion, stated in an interview, to get the movie. If that’s the case, the movie failed.

I just rewatched the final scene hoping your take away was correct. I just don’t see it though. Well I do see that the woman he meets is Autumn (comes after Summer) and so their is a cycle. But Autumn, unlike Summer, breaks her plans to meet someone after her interview, so she can get coffee with Tom. This is how…

I totally want to agree with you but I feel like that wasn’t the point. If so, it really should have been clear as everything else in the movie. To me, he was heart broken, blamed the woman, then got over it because he met another woman. But you did state it perfectly. She was upfront, honest and clear. He did not…

I don’t have an account so I made a burner to respond to your comment.

Really? 500 Days seems like the anthem for ‘nice guys’ who can’t comprehend a woman that doesn’t want to be in a full on monogamous relationship with them then get mad when they break up or move on to something else. It was a complete woe is me she broke my heart pity party.