The Notebook

The Notebook is the best selling novel by Nicholas Sparks and directed by Nick Cassavetes. Gena Raowlands plays this older woman named Allie Hamilton, she is in a nursing home, she has alzheimer. There is a gentleman in the nursing home, Duke (James Garner), who reads her this story everyday called The Notebook.As the film goes on you slowly realize the story that Duke is telling Allie is about how they fell in love. During the film as Duke is telling the story they show the two of them younger, Allie is played by Rachel McAdams and Noah Calhoun(Duke) is played by Ryan Gosling. Through the film Duke tells this story about two young people falling in love but her parents are trying to stop it. Her parents take her away, noah writes her everyday for a year. Then he goes off to war, when he gets back he buys the house he always wanted. He then fixes up the house and his picture in front of the house is put in the paper. Allie sees the picture in the paper and leaves her fiance to go see noah. They talk and realize they are still in love.

This film was so touching, to see how alzheimer's really does to a person, how they forget there one true love. I couldn't believe how Duke stayed there everyday, for that one split second that she would remember him. The end of this movie was so touching, Duke went into Allie's room, he layed next to her they held hands and they died together.

This film touched me so much because I work with alzheimers and dementia people, I see this everyday. I see families coming in hoping that today will be the day there relatives would remember them. It is very heartbreaking.

The way this film was shot with the scale,angles, and lighting it basically told the audience the story. The director did a great job with the camera movement also, just told these two peoples life story so well. The actors capture Allie and Noah so well. They made you know who these two people were and why they were so much in love.

I know this sounds really girlie but I never cried so hard at a film in a very long time. The Notebook was a moving, sweet, and loving film that I have seen in a very long time. This film made me at the same time not want to get older and forget the one person that I love with all my heart. It was a sad but happy film at the same time.