My favourite film of all time is ‘The Notebook’; it is the sweetest love story and is sure to make you cry. It is perfect for a girlie night in because it is a true romantic story of two lovers whose love for each other is so strong that it allows them to pass away together…
The sweeping love story is narrated by an elderly man reading from his faded notebook to an elderly woman in a nursing home. The film then travels back in time to the 1940s where it follows the lives of two North Carolina teenagers from very different worlds. They spend the whole of the summer with one another eventually leading to them falling in love. Towards the end of the summer, the mother of Allie (the girl) realizes that Noah (the boy) has distracted her from her work and that he is no good for her as he comes from a poorer family… this results in the mother separating both Allie and Noah from each other to stop them ‘falling in love’ any deeper. As time goes on, they are also separated by World War 2 where Noah goes off to war. After the soldiers come home, everything is different. Allie is engaged to a successful businessman and Noah lives alone with his memories in a 200-year old house he is restoring. But when Allie sees an article in the local paper about Noah’s restoration of the house, she knows that she has to make a decision once and for all about the path her life and love-life must take…
The story goes on to show how Allie and Noah fall in love all over again. Eventually Allie decides to call off the engagement and to marry Noah. There is a twist in the story as the audience finds out that the story the elderly man is Noah and the woman in the nursing home is Allie. However, Allie has a disease which makes her forget things and as she begins to remember her life with Noah, her memory quickly vanishes and she quickly becomes frightened. The audiences’ emotions are tested at this point because it is a very sad scene in the film where she fights Noah off and has to be knocked unconscious by an injection. The end of the film is by far the saddest part of the whole movie; Noah comes to visit Allie in hospital and she finally remembers that the story he told her was theirs. They have a long heart-felt conversation which brings tears to the audiences eyes and they peacefully die holding each other close… this is such a sad film which makes me cry every time. However I love it because it is such a cute romantic film
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