The Notebook(2004)

Here is my favorite movie as my first post :

This is my all time favorite romantic movie in English.

Starring : 

Ryan Gosling

Rachel McAdams

James Garner

Gena Rowlands

Love is always the same one if we try to explain to someone. But only the two persons can feel how their love is special and only they know their worth. In the same way Noah and Allie find their love so special and everlasting. 

The story starts with stunning star Ryan Gosling as Noah Calhoun, a local country boy who is attracted by the cuteness of a charming Rachel McAdams as  seventeen-year-old Allie Hamilton. Noah is beaten by her beauty in a carnival where he tries to flirt with her but fails instantly. But then he expresses his mischievous ways to go on a ride with her in a giant wheel which was a beautiful part in the movie. 

Days pass-by and one fine day Noah meets Allie in on his way to work and asks her for a date. Hesitation finally ends in a perfect night date where they both play in the streets with great madness. There blossoms the friendship.

Then Noah takes Allie to an abandoned house, which he explains that he intends to buy for them.On that evening, They try making love for each other , but they are interrupted by Noah's friend Fin (Kevin Connolly) with the news that Allie's parents have the police out looking for her. When Allie and Noah return to her parents' mansion, they ban her from seeing Noah cause he is a country of a poor status.The two break up and the next morning, Allie's mother announces that the family is returning home to Charleston.

Here comes the break point in love between Noah and Allie they have no choice but to move on as we all do in our lives; Noah and Fin enlist to fight in World War II and Fin is killed in the battle. Allie becomes a volunteer nurse in a hospital , where she meets an officer named Lon Hammond, Jr. (James Marsden), a  lawyer smart and rich and comes from old Southern money. They both become engaged eventually.

Noah returns home from the war and he finds his father sold their home so that Noah can buy the abandoned house, fulfilling his lifelong dream to buy it for the departed Allie, whom by now he hasn't seen for several years. Noah goes to Charleston where he witnesses Allie and Lon kissing at a restaurant; he convinces himself that if he restores the house, Allie will come back to him. Later, Allie is startled to read in the newspaper that Noah has completed the house, and she visits him in Sea brook.

Now in present it is shown clearly that the old women to whom duke explains the story is Allie in fact who is suffering from dementia and cannot remember any of the events being read to her  and Duke her husband is reading her the story, but Allie cannot recognize him.

Coming back to the black screen, Allie returns to Sea brook. She and Noah renew their relationship and make love at Noah's now restored house.Love is all over the place and they both express love like anything between them. In the morning, Allie's mother appears on Noah's doorstep, warning Allie that a jealous Lon has followed her to Sea brook. Allie confesses to Lon that she has been spending time with Noah. He is upset but says that he still loves her. Allie tells him she knows she should be with him, but she remains indecisive.

Old Allie becomes briefly lucid and remembers that the story Duke is reading is the story of how they met. Young Allie appears at Noah's doorstep, having left Lon at the hotel. Elderly Allie suddenly remembers her past; after finding out about her illness, she herself wrote their story in the notebook with instructions for Noah to "read this to me, and I'll come back to you". But Allie soon relapses, losing her memories of Noah. She panics, not understanding who he is, and has to be sedated. That same night Noah is hospitalized with what seems to be another heart attack.

When released from the hospital, Elderly Noah ("Duke") goes to Allie's room to find her lucid again. Allie questions Noah about what will happen to them when she loses her memory completely, and he reassures her that he will never leave her. She asks him if he thinks their love for each other is strong enough to "take them away together"; he replies that he thinks their love could do anything. After telling each other that they love one another, they both go to sleep in Allie's bed. The next morning, a nurse finds that they had passed away in each other's arms just like how "They wish to live together and leave together".

Verdict : I suggest all who like romance should watch it once and who doesn't like romance should watch it twice so that you may find what you've missed so far in your life.

Rating : 8.5/10