The Notebook
The
Notebook is a 2004
romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes. It is based on the novel of
the same name by Nicholas Sparks. The major actors of this film are Ryan
Gosling and Rachel McAdams. They are young couple who fall in love during the
early 1940s. Their story is narrated from the present day by an elderly man
played by James Garner, telling the tale to a fellow nursing home resident,
played by Gena Rowlands.
The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an
old woman in a nursing home. The story he reads is about two young lovers named
Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who met one evening at a carnival. But they
are separated by Allie's parents who disapprove of Noah's poor family, and move
Allie away. Later Allie meets and gets engaged to a soldier named Lon. After
some time she sees an article of Noah‘s restored 200 – year - old house as she
wanted in youth when they were together. Allie, then, visits him in that house.
It is evident that they still have feelings for each other, and Allie has to
choose between her fiance and her first love. It is obvious that she chooses
her first love. When she gets old she has a disease – dementia. That is why her
lover Noah reads the book about their love story for many times. Their love was
so true that even they died together.
The film is a fantastic romantic drama full of emotional and sensitive
situations that allow you to involve in this story. The actors give magnificent
performance because they are professionals. The directing is first class.
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