TOM Scenes of the Movie
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TOM Whats that?
GIRL Why not?
TOM
Okay, well, then I‘ll just uh—I‘ll wait for you GIRL
We-Well figure it out. TOM
We‘ll figure it out She laughs. Shes cute when she laughs.
TOM Ok
extends hand to shake My names Tom.
GIRL Nice to meet you...
She puts out her hand to meet his. They shake. GIRL
Im Autumn. And on his face...
SMASH CUT TO: THE END
DECONSTRUCTION ANALYSIS ON POSTMODERN CHARACTER: SUMMER FINN IN
500 DAYS OF SUMMER MOVIE
Devi Nurhayati, English Letters Department. Adab and Humanities Faculty. Syarif
Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta.
ABSTRACT 500 Days of Summer is a movie which describes the postmodern love story. The issue
of postmodern brings from Summer Finn as main character in the movie. Summer brings some postmodern values in her life, and she kinds of postmodern person who
ignore the rules and life freely. However at the end Summer decides to marry other man and life by togetherness. Using Deconstruction theory of Jacques Derrida, this study
focuses on the development of Summer‟s character and focuses on some other things which disturb the reflection of Summer Finn as the representation of postmodern
person. A.
Introduction
Postmodernism is a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the
rejection of objective truth and global cultural narrative. Postmodern is one of the movement ideas to change the idea in modern era. Postmodern refuses the explanation
which harmonic, universal, and consistent. It indicates to the intellectual condition and the whole of culture which doubt the principles, ideas that used in modern era.
Postmodern people do not try to be the individual who control themselves fully, but be their „real‟ self; the motto is „every human has a right to utter hisher opinion‟. The
acceptance for this new ethos is spreading up until the term of „postmodernism‟ is the label which is used in many social phenomenon and culture. Postmodern waves touch
many aspects such as in culture, and in some discipline of science, especially in Architecture, Philosophy, Literature, and Film,
One of the aspects which are touched by postmodernism is film. Film is one of the social communication media, because themes of film are related to social condition
or social reality. One of the films which rise the issues about postmodernism is 500 Days of Summer. 500 days of Summer describes the post-modern love story which
never what expect it to be. The issues of postmodernism thoughts are reflected in
Summer‟s character. Summer Finn is the representation of the postmodern people, who
do not try to be individual who control themselves, but by being the „real‟ of her. Summer Finn also represents the postmodern people that do not have to prove
themselves are right or other people are wrong. For postmodern people, believe or faith is about social context.
As a character with postmodern ideas or thoughts, Summer lives in her belief and truth, she thinks that love is only fantasy and she does not want to be attached with
someone and avoid marriages. However Summer at the end decides to leave Tom and get married with other man. She involves herself in one of the regulation named
marriage, one thing that she avoids for. From the explanation above there are some things from Summer which disturbs
the reflection of her as postmodern person. This interests the writer to analyze Summer‟s character as representation of postmodern character and bring the
postmodern values in her life, through her idea, thought, and attitude. And at the end deconstruct it by using the deconstruction theory.