The Notebook

Summary: The Notebook is based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks. The film starts Ryan Goslin as “Noah” and Rachel McAdams as ‘Allie.” It’s about a young couple that falls in love during the early 1940s. The story is told by an elderly man old Noah who is telling their love story to old Allie who is a nursing home resident. The story follows the two young lovers. Allie’s parents who disapprove Noah’s unwealthy family move Allie away and separate them. Noah writes 365 letters to Allie, which her mother restores them from Allie’s sight. Time passes and Allie gets engage with a wealthy soldier. However, she looks at a newspaper with a picture of Noah expressing the accomplishments he has done with his 200-year-old house. Allie goes back to check how Noah is doing and is faced with the decision to choose between her fiancé and her first love.

This movie does an outstanding job.  They manage to go from past/future since “old Noah’ is the one narrating the story, where other romantic films fail to succeed. Both Ryan (Noah) and Rachel (Allie) share dominant roles since the movie balances to show both views on the situation. It makes the audience engage and have empathy towards what they are feeling and every spark they share together. Is hard not to tear up. The shift through out the time passing strengths the film by engaging the audience to keep watching the movie to figure out what’s going to happen next? The costumes are used correctly according to the time period of the story, including all the surroundings like the stores, the work force, how everything is displayed as a whole. The chemistry showed in this movie is fantastic. The cast makes every scene believable by getting deep in their roles. The passion scenes are irresistible. All the mixed feelings you get just by watching one film are insanely crazy; which in this case Nicholas Sparks does an amazing job. All the sacrifices that Noah and Rachel encounter makes the reader even ask themselves, how far would they really go to be with the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, or what will you do for love and if it is all worth living for.  The diction that these actors and actress use is appropriate, very detailed and straight to the point. Many other films have unnecessary vocabulary that tends to throw off the audience or purpose to the tone its being done. Even though this film expresses mixed emotions, it’s still deserves five stars. The movie showed consistency of control and power. It really shows how powerful love can really be.