The Notebook

The Notebook is one of the most praised romance movies of today; staring Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gossling, who have an on-screen chemistry that is undeniable. The Box Office hit produced by Toby Emmerich, is based on the novel The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks. The Notebook grossed nearly 1.16 millon dollars while spending on the movie was only $29 million.
The Notebook is only of the best romance movies since The Titanic, in my opinion. The love story is beautiful. The young couple Allie, played by beauty Rachel McAdams and Noah, played by Ryan Gossling show a love on screen that's hard to be compared to. In the beginning of the movie the setting is an nursing home where a man who goes by the name of Duke reads to an elderly woman whom suffers from dementia. What the audience doesn't know at first is that the story Duke is reading the elderly lady is the story of their romance as a teenage couple. Noah Calhoun is a southern boy who lives a rather humble life with his father, struggling to makes ends meet but enjoying life all the while. Allie Hamilton is a classic souther bell with all the wealth and opportunties a girl could wish for and had no intentions on falling for Noah. Through a whirlwind summer romance Noah and Allie fall head over hills in love with eachother, but Ally's father doesn't approve and packs the family up to move back to Charlestown, NC; Noah is devasted to hear that Ally's leaving yet he writes her a letter a day for a year, never to hear anything back from her. Ally never knew of any of the letters from Noah because her mother keeps them from her and Ally moves on and becomes engaged to another man. One day Allie sees an article in a newspaper displaying a picture of Noah in front of the plantation house  Noah had always said he'd restore to it's prior conditon, along with a few prospects Allie had said she'd wanted. Allie tells her fiance Lon she needs to Seabrook for a few days and while she's away her and Noah have a series of fights and she realizes she is still in love with him. The movie concludes with Duke finishing the love story of Allie and Noah and Duke (Noah) laying in bed with the elderly woman (Allie) and they both die in their sleep together. Duke (Noah) never really needed to be in the nursing home, he satyed there in hopes of helping his wife remember their past life together, transending a beautiful love story.
"So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again. If I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out."- Noah Calhoun

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