What stayed
The storytelling and the way it reshapes the same relationship through different moments and perspectives. and that damn tree art that went through a full season in that summer. took some time to realise, film’s central metaphor is not really that Tom or Summer “changed.” It is that Tom’s image of Summer changed once he stopped seeing her through his own projection. Like that quote goes: "I am not what I think I am and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think ‘you think’ i am."
