The all time love story favorite "The notebook" is an idealistic relationship that sure is the story every lovers would dream of having. It is a definition that love should be forever. I entirely enjoyed the film in the beginning though predictable and sappy but it moves into your heart as if the feeling of one's first love. First true love depicted as enduring and mutual.
Cassavetes' has manipulated some old time audience hit films that even grow with generation. We entirely know about Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, young love, sweethearts that until now spring meanings of love. We just enjoy appreciating this kind of movie themes perhaps everybody is dreaming of having one and how it might feels like. Watching the movie, makes you realize the similarity with that of "Romeo and Juliet" marked in that last scene only it has few innovations.
The Notebook created by Cassavetes's the maker of four films who gets into one's heart and lingers until you don't get enough of it. This is true in my case; happen to repeat it not twice but thrice and even recommended it to some of my friends. Nick Cassavetes followed the lead of Nicholas Sparks' novel, a complete story that hooks you from the beginning to the end despite the sensibility of how it is going to end. Like any other love stories, some tragedies overcome with love but in this story though conventional you do not get easily tired with it.
The story starts with two people who seem to be strangers sharing stories in a hospital setting that is the home for the aged. An old lady who was peculiarly interested to a man's story that led her to follow throughout the day feeling the sense of familiarity. The director showed how the story is narrated illustrating different periods of time.
Allie Nelson (starred by Rachel McAdams of Mean Girls) took a midsummer vacation in Seabrook North Carolina. Allie who belonged to elite class, rich, innocent and youthful. On the other hand, a small town boy Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) caught her attention. Two different social backgrounds having strong characters in 1940's. Allie born rich and only child while Noah a total opposite who works in the lumberyard in south rural. In that one feast in the carnival, the love chase begins when Noah caught by her and conceitedly asked for a simple date. The irresistible courtship of Noah swiftly wins her heart and the romance begins.
Later it shattered by a harsh reality that Allie's mom cannot agree to this love affair. Since they were young, spoiled and easily persuaded then refused to get them together. By distance, time, and situation, they got separated. Out from each other's reach, somehow they learned to forget and go on with their lives. Allie soon found another love from her soon to be fiancee (James Marsden) and torn on her concealed feeling for Noah. However, in the middle of her wedding rehearsal, she stumped about her feelings after realizing that Noah continues to follow their dreams. Instinctively, she thought of clearing everything she had in the past by confronting him. But their love meet them both.
Allie and Noah got back together in the old house they had dream of sharing when they get older. Knowing that their families would not understand her decision and the situation she is in, still she pursued on starting a life with him.
Until the plot itself leads us to the old couple in the beginning of the scene, as the old Allie and Noah. Though Allie seems to have lost her memory, still Noah is not tired of courting her over again. As I have said, the love story ends like "Romeo and Juliet' where they both died in each other's love.
The problem I see in the story is the pacing due to flashbacks holding out, suspending your intensity as though a passionate kiss interrupted by a commercial break. The novel's approach is totally Cassavetes' trademark and somehow gets an edge of the novel instead of a widescreen storyline. I even got the feeling that the movie deprived me from sympathizing to the emotion depicted. It draws out the romantic scene, leaves you hanging and returns. The passion that supposed to be felt and encompassed blocked by a few flashbacks. On the other hand, it appears as if scriptwriters used on using too much the conflict in this case the Alzheimer's disease to most top love stories. It can make you compare with other love stories you had seen before.
The director though is excellent in choosing the right characters to fit in the shoes of Allie and Noah, even the old ones. They were enticing especially Ryan Gosling in his quest to find the love of his life. The characters nominated as the best kiss, acknowledged by Oprah in one of her movie review episodes.
"The Notebook" does really show love that bounds time and situation. It covers not age nor status or hindrances but abounds having a different plane of its own. It also shows the quality of courtship and lasting friendship not just mutual love but the essences. It is something that grows and records.
Overall, "The Notebook" is one romantic tale I would recommend and never cease sharing. Anyone can just enjoy how it plays out and definitely makes a blockbuster hit. It just so happen that the movie released on mid-June, that would make a big hit if released earlier.
Cassavetes' has manipulated some old time audience hit films that even grow with generation. We entirely know about Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, young love, sweethearts that until now spring meanings of love. We just enjoy appreciating this kind of movie themes perhaps everybody is dreaming of having one and how it might feels like. Watching the movie, makes you realize the similarity with that of "Romeo and Juliet" marked in that last scene only it has few innovations.
The Notebook created by Cassavetes's the maker of four films who gets into one's heart and lingers until you don't get enough of it. This is true in my case; happen to repeat it not twice but thrice and even recommended it to some of my friends. Nick Cassavetes followed the lead of Nicholas Sparks' novel, a complete story that hooks you from the beginning to the end despite the sensibility of how it is going to end. Like any other love stories, some tragedies overcome with love but in this story though conventional you do not get easily tired with it.
The story starts with two people who seem to be strangers sharing stories in a hospital setting that is the home for the aged. An old lady who was peculiarly interested to a man's story that led her to follow throughout the day feeling the sense of familiarity. The director showed how the story is narrated illustrating different periods of time.
Allie Nelson (starred by Rachel McAdams of Mean Girls) took a midsummer vacation in Seabrook North Carolina. Allie who belonged to elite class, rich, innocent and youthful. On the other hand, a small town boy Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) caught her attention. Two different social backgrounds having strong characters in 1940's. Allie born rich and only child while Noah a total opposite who works in the lumberyard in south rural. In that one feast in the carnival, the love chase begins when Noah caught by her and conceitedly asked for a simple date. The irresistible courtship of Noah swiftly wins her heart and the romance begins.
Later it shattered by a harsh reality that Allie's mom cannot agree to this love affair. Since they were young, spoiled and easily persuaded then refused to get them together. By distance, time, and situation, they got separated. Out from each other's reach, somehow they learned to forget and go on with their lives. Allie soon found another love from her soon to be fiancee (James Marsden) and torn on her concealed feeling for Noah. However, in the middle of her wedding rehearsal, she stumped about her feelings after realizing that Noah continues to follow their dreams. Instinctively, she thought of clearing everything she had in the past by confronting him. But their love meet them both.
Allie and Noah got back together in the old house they had dream of sharing when they get older. Knowing that their families would not understand her decision and the situation she is in, still she pursued on starting a life with him.
Until the plot itself leads us to the old couple in the beginning of the scene, as the old Allie and Noah. Though Allie seems to have lost her memory, still Noah is not tired of courting her over again. As I have said, the love story ends like "Romeo and Juliet' where they both died in each other's love.
The problem I see in the story is the pacing due to flashbacks holding out, suspending your intensity as though a passionate kiss interrupted by a commercial break. The novel's approach is totally Cassavetes' trademark and somehow gets an edge of the novel instead of a widescreen storyline. I even got the feeling that the movie deprived me from sympathizing to the emotion depicted. It draws out the romantic scene, leaves you hanging and returns. The passion that supposed to be felt and encompassed blocked by a few flashbacks. On the other hand, it appears as if scriptwriters used on using too much the conflict in this case the Alzheimer's disease to most top love stories. It can make you compare with other love stories you had seen before.
The director though is excellent in choosing the right characters to fit in the shoes of Allie and Noah, even the old ones. They were enticing especially Ryan Gosling in his quest to find the love of his life. The characters nominated as the best kiss, acknowledged by Oprah in one of her movie review episodes.
"The Notebook" does really show love that bounds time and situation. It covers not age nor status or hindrances but abounds having a different plane of its own. It also shows the quality of courtship and lasting friendship not just mutual love but the essences. It is something that grows and records.
Overall, "The Notebook" is one romantic tale I would recommend and never cease sharing. Anyone can just enjoy how it plays out and definitely makes a blockbuster hit. It just so happen that the movie released on mid-June, that would make a big hit if released earlier.
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