The Notebook: A Predictable Love Story

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The Notebook…not another predictable love story It all started during the year of 1940 in South Carolina, an unfortunate mill worker Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) and a rich girl Allie (Rachel McAdams) fall profoundly in love. Allie’s parents disapprove of them being together, and they are soon separated because of their social differences. Allie went off to a women’s college while Noah went to serve in World War ll, and they both thought their relationship was over. Allie volunteered as an army nurse, where she met a wealthy man and he proposed to her shortly after they met. Several years later Noah comes back into town to work on the house he promised Allie as their future home. Allie saw a picture of Noah …show more content…

I believe it to be possible for two people to be as deeply in love and completely devoted to each other the way Allie and Noah are. Some of the reviews I read on the film stated differently; they believe the relationship is unrealistic and it sets false expectations because women will compare their men to Noah, and they would not measure up to their expectations. I do not fully agree because my theory is you get back what you put into a relationship. If it is true love, both partners are going to work together to keep the relationship alive and do whatever it takes to keep one another just as Noah and Allie did in the film. Even though Noah and Allie were separated for several years, Noah never gave up on loving her, in fact he decided to finish the house he promised to Allie as their future home together thinking it would draw her back to him. Roger Ebert from the RogerEbert website writes in his review, “the old mansion is underlined, first in its decay and then in its rebirth; young Noah is convinced that if he makes good on his promise to rebuild the house for Allie, she will come to live in it with him, and paint in the studio he has made for her.” I do not fully agree that the house Noah rebuilt is underlined because I think by Noah doing as he promised it brought them back together. It took Allie seeing the picture of Noah with the house in the newspaper …show more content…

In the movie Noah reads from a notebook to Allie of their everlasting love and how they fell in love, in all hopes of it sparking her memory. Elaine Eshbaugh, from an online website writes, “I appreciate Noah’s efforts, and it does temporarily spark her memory when he reads it. But it does not work that way in real life.” She also talked about how dementia is more than just memory loss, but also affects other aspects of the body. I believe in the movie they could have portrayed the disease a little more accurate by not simplifying it as much as they did. However, this film taught me love can be more than a dozen roses, and more than just a simple I love you. Its heartfelt emotion allowed me to associate my relationship with and relate to the film. The reality of this movie reveals the meaning of love to be sacrificing to extreme extents and being willing to love no matter of the circumstances. I think this film reaches depths of emotions that are tangible for two people who are truly in love to the extent that nothing can come between them, signifying that The Notebook is not just another predictable love

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