What is being represented? How?
- Love is being represented in this trailer. It is first presented as a fairytale (Barthes). The trailer begins with Summer (Zooey Deschanel) announcing that she has the same music taste as Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) in an elevator. This is a very realistic representation of love - it can spark in any place at any time with any random person. The film is based around fate, which is very mythical and fairytale-like (true to Barthes).
- Heartbreak is also represented in the trailer. Straight after the love is presented, Summer says 'I think we should stop seeing each other'. There are pieces of dialogue interjected into the trailer during which Summer says things