The Notebook (2004)

How Far Would You Go For The One You Love…

“There are people who are afraid to fall in love as they don’t want to get hurt but can you control yourself when the cupids bow hits you?”

Every one has a sudden doubt in their mind when it deals with love but almost everyone can not bare the uneasy tension and unescapable feeling of butterflies in their stomach, mind drift, that feeling of completeness and becoming speechless... after just meeting that special someone that took your breathe away. The unescapable hard thump heart beat rising, the mind drifts to other dimensions, and the stuttering speech leaves you helpless and defenceless around them.   

Set in the 1940’s , this romantic drama film based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks is centrally focused by the narrated elderly codger who reads to a vulnerable old woman, who has been robbed of her memories by Alzheimer’s.   

From a faded notebook, the story of two young lovers is told, unfolding past memories and true events undertaken by them both. It is through the old codger’s words that bring to life the story about the young couple’s (Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun) adventures together. Reading slowly becomes reliving. Their journey speaks about their enforced separation by her disapproving parents, to issues of socioeconomic difference and the commencement of World War II. Despite having taken separate paths and separate lives they are reunited by destiny, and once again their love for each other grows bigger than ever before. Transported back to present day whereby Allie has lost her memory, his words give her the guidance and chance to relive her past, to remember who she is and to reawaken the spark (love) they once shared. In hopes that someday, by reading to her she will regain her memory, and fall back in love with him once again.  

"The story of our lives,.. Read this to me, and I'll come back to you."

I found this movie to be very visually pleasing; having a lot of lush vegetation and landscapes and filled with rich saturated colours.  ‘The Notebook’ can be said to be; thoughtful, heart throbbing and emotionally richen in which leaves all in tears and gasping for air.  It depicts the notion of love’s great significance in an individual’s life and though being faced with obstacles and hardships it’s only then that love delivers its deepest rewards.

At no other time in my life can I recall ever seeing a movie so romantic, so uplifting, so emotional and so exciting. Who would have known that a little notebook could contain the greatest love story ever told. Never has a movie made me feel alive. The passion, screen chemistry and the emotion expressed in the film is captivating.   

‘The Notebook’, is not just another romantic drama film but it is a movie that can be watched over and over again. Every aspect of emotion is endured and captured; may it be contentment, grief, anxiety and excitement or all. This film has a lot to offer. For its a lot of love and a lot of drama; I give this movie a rating of 4.5 out 5 for its 123 minute epic love story and clever time (past and present) shifts that leaves everyone reaching out  for a tissue.

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