“The Notebook” is a romantic movie directed by Nick
Cassavetes. The film is based on the novel of the same name written by Nicholas
Sparks. The film is an American movie produced in 2004. The main actors are Ryan
Gosling and Rachel McAdams. The target audience to this film is mainly girls.
The movie starts in a modern day nursing house where
an elderly man named Duke begins to read a love story from his notebook to a
female patient. The story starts in 1940 at a carnival in Seabrook Island where
the poor local country boy Noah Calhoun meets Allie Hamilton, a rich girl who
is staying in Seabrook Island with her parents for the summer. They spend a
romantic and idyllic summer together. One week before Allie is going home to go
studding on college Noah shows Allie a house he hopes to buy. After this they
get in a big fight and they decide to break up and Allie leaves without saying
goodbye. They both moves on with their lives Allie continue school and get engaged
to Lon Hammond while Noah goes to world war two. Noah later comes home and buys
the house he showed Allie. He fixes up the house like Allie wanted him to do,
and hopes she will come back to him. After a while Allie comes to the house to
see Noah. After this she does not know which man she wants to be with. The movie
switches the elderly man and woman again, and the woman realizes that the man
is telling the story about her life and that the man is Noah. She also remembers
that she left Ron to be with Noah.
The main characters in this movie are very different
from each other. In the move Noah is presented like a typical poor small town
boy with no future while Allie is a rich city girl who is going the college and
she is having a bright future.
The story is not told chronology. The story switches
between when Allie and Noah were young and when they are old and Noah is telling
Allie their story. The climax in the film is when Allie finds out that the
story she is being told is the story about her and Noah and that it is Noah who
is telling the story.
The film does not have an open ending. The movie ends
with that Allie and Noah are on the nursing home and Noah goes into Allies room
late at night. When the nurse comes into the room the next morning she finds
both Allie and Noah dead in the bed. They have both died peacefully holding each
other hands. The last scene shows a flock of birds flying away.
I think that the theme for this film is love. The film
shows a clear love story between people that should not be together in the
first place. The theme shows a clear message through the film. The theme is connected
to the title of the film because you often write about love in your notebook.
My personal opinion about “The Notebook” that it is a
great film about love. It is a heartbreaking story. I did not have a dry eye
after the movie was finished. Even if the film is telling å typical love story
it is a film worth seeing.
