The Notebook starring Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, and Gena Rowlands is a compelling love story in both the present and the past. An aged Noah Calhoun (James Garner) begins the movie by making regular visits to his female patron Allie Calhoun, revealing to her the account of an oh-so-in-love couple from an old notebook. The scene is first revealed as an old nursing home, but as Noah tells the story flashbacks appear of the young couple. Depictions are presented of everything this couple endured from their first date to their first time making love. Viewers get to know everything about Noah and Allie. For example, Allie comes from a wealthy family and plans to receive top notch education at a college far away when the time comes. Noah on the other hand completes hard labor at a mill in town and makes minimum wage. Needless to say, Allie’s parents fell that she can do better than Noah and encourage her to avoid him.
They get their wish when Allie goes off to college far away, and she and Noah lose all contact. Even though Noah writes Allie every day, her mother steals them so that Allie will forget him and find someone else to love. Lon Hammond becomes her next love, and as the story progresses they get engaged to be married. In the meantime Noah returns from serving in the war and begins working to repair the old house where he and Allie first made love. He completes everything just the way she pictured her dream home, with a white wraparound porch and a room on the top floor for her to paint. Allie sees word of this in the paper and goes to see Noah asking him why he never wrote her. This ‘dreamy’ couple falls back in love and decides to spend the rest of their life together in Noah’s new home.
As part of the audience, I not only enjoyed the love of Noah and Allie back in their prime, but also as Noah cared for Allie in the nursing home despite her lack of memory. At the end of the movie Noah and Allie die together in the same hospital bed as they hold hands. I can’t think of a much better ending to portray the power of love or how some things are just meant to be.
They get their wish when Allie goes off to college far away, and she and Noah lose all contact. Even though Noah writes Allie every day, her mother steals them so that Allie will forget him and find someone else to love. Lon Hammond becomes her next love, and as the story progresses they get engaged to be married. In the meantime Noah returns from serving in the war and begins working to repair the old house where he and Allie first made love. He completes everything just the way she pictured her dream home, with a white wraparound porch and a room on the top floor for her to paint. Allie sees word of this in the paper and goes to see Noah asking him why he never wrote her. This ‘dreamy’ couple falls back in love and decides to spend the rest of their life together in Noah’s new home.
As part of the audience, I not only enjoyed the love of Noah and Allie back in their prime, but also as Noah cared for Allie in the nursing home despite her lack of memory. At the end of the movie Noah and Allie die together in the same hospital bed as they hold hands. I can’t think of a much better ending to portray the power of love or how some things are just meant to be.
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