The Notebook Movie Review

The Notebook is a movie about two peoples journey and it makes you hope they get together.  It was directed by Nick Cassavettes who prior to this was best known for John Q which is about a father, who doesn't have the insurance to pay for his son's heart transplant so he takes the hospital's emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to perform the operation.  Back to this movie though, it is based off the novel written by Nicholas Sparks, Jan Sardi was in charge of adapting the novel into film and Jeremy Leven wrote the screenplay.

I have to admit, I don't normally gravitate to the love story movies, I feel like that is because that is because I enjoy action and comedy more but I wanted to broaden my movie perspective and take on a different genre.  This story starts with an old man who is in a nursing home and he reads a story to an old woman each day. The story he reads is about these two young lovers named Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) and Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams). They met one evening at a carnival many years ago. They fall in love but Allies parents dissapprove of Noah because of his lack of wealth, and they force the two to break up and Allie moves back home. She waits for Noah to write her for several years, but gets nothing so she moves on and meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon (James Marsden).  Then while getting fitted for her wedding dress she looks at a local newspaper and Noah's picture catches her eye. He is standing in front of a fully restored, 200-year-old home. Allie then passes out because that is the house he told her he would restore for them.  Needing to clear the air and see if Noah is okay, and tell him about her marriage she goes to see him. They both still have feelings deep in their hearts for each other, feelings that have lasted all these years, and even though she is engage this is love like no other.  It wasn't over but she was engaged....

 

This scene pictured above is my favorite of this movie because it shows when she first really begins to trust him.  Also it shows the more fun side of her, plus there is a little bit of humor which as a said before I lean towards those types of movies so I am glad to see their was some funny parts in this movie.

I have to say that Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams have amazing chemistry, I felt that they truly fell for each other and were in love from the minute he was hanging from the ferris wheel.  I have seen movies where the two playing the love interests struggle to make a connection but that was not the case here.  These two lit up the screen like magic from the second they were together it was amazing.

Overall I would give this movie a A-.  The story is just amazing about how these two fall in love, get disconnected and then they reconnect.. granted there is the factor that she is engaged which is always a bum factor but does she stay with him or does she pick Noah.  I can't tell you.  If you haven't seen it yet you will just have to go watch it to figure that one out!