The Notebook - Review

The Notebook 

review Brogan Corderoy 

"The Notebook” displays a couple at two completely different stages of their lives together. We see Noah and Allie urgently seeking young loves dream which threatens to be torn apart. Tables are turned when Noah and Allie have spent their whole lives together experience the love they have for each other, but now Noah is fighting for the love he once had we his beloved Allie as she slowly becomes a victim to the harrowing disease Alzheimers, which slowly kills the love Noah and Allie once had day by day.

The director of this romantic hit is Nick Cassavetes, Cassavetes cleverly lets the story be told through time, this is demonstrated with flashbacks over the course of the film, which is successfully done without confusing the audience.  Although the story is set in the present, sixty years prior to this Noah and Allie meet and fall in love. Over the years Allie unfortunately falls ill with Alzheimers, Noah tries to rekindle the love that Allie had forgotten by reading to her from a notebook, in this notebook it tells the story of their love they’ve experienced together.

The Notebook that Noah reads to Allie is very symbolic and has a very deep meaning to the film, which is that the notebook holds the truth and experiences that Noah and Allie had shared together over the last fifty years together. I like this idea of a notebook the symbolise Noah and Allies love and relationship, because its unique and is used throughout the whole storyline.

Ryan Gosling who plays Noah and Rachel McAdams displays a very unique, believable and remarkable chemistry between them, which convinces the audience of their love for each other. Due to the film being filmed at two different stages of Allie and Noah lives together, the older generation of Noah and Allie were portrayed by James Gardner and Gena Rowlands. Unfortunately I feel that Gardner and Rowlands didn’t successfully portray the role that they were signed up for, compared to Gosling and McAdams.

The Notebook is not your typical cliché love story, it shows the love of two young people which ends in a way not most love stories end.  Although this is unfortunate for Allie and Noah, it shows the realistic way that love can unfortunately end, which the audience can relate too and fell more involved in the film.

Overall, what I can say about The Notebook is that the cliché of a love story and realistic nous of how love can end is very appropriate and an enjoyable watch, which I would gladly watch again and again.