The Notebook 2004
By
Nick Cassavetes
This film is about love, of the everlasting type, one that endures, and refuses to decay, even though years and disease. A summer romance between two adolescents, one commoner and the other an heiress, manages to overcome the trials and tribulations of time, and gets realized but then is lost to a dementia which claims the wife. The husband reads to her from the NOTEBOOK, hoping his sweetheart would identify with their story and maybe come back to memory. And she does for a brief moment where the lost lovers are reunited in spirit. But it's too beautiful to last and she slips again. In another brief moment of lucidity, the wife wishes the two of them can die together, which they manage to do.
Though the plot is hackneyed, the screenplay unfolds in a manner to keep the viewer guessing, as to who the girl chooses among her two suitors and who the present husband is! The screenplay is the real USP of this otherwise sugary-sweet movie.
The lead cast, Ryan Gosling and Racheal McAdams have a great chemistry and have performed very well. They remind me of young, fresh radishes. Some lovely music and beautiful cinematography add to the overall experience. All in all, a good film, but not for those who puke at the thought of love and romance.
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