The Notebook

The film is based on the best-seller by Nicholas Sparks, “The Notebook” is a story about lost opportunities, life experience and the strength of eternal love.
Everything begins when Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) goes to the town of Seabrook, in North Carolina for the summer and meets Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling). Although they belong to different worlds (she is from a rich family and he is a simple worker), they fall deeply in love during a full of emotion summer. They are separated, first by her parents an then by World War II, but they remain tormented by their memories.
After the soldiers come home, everything changes. Allie is engaged to Lon (James Garner), a successful businessman that she met when she worked as a volunteer in a hospital. Noah lives alone with his memories in a 200-year-old house that he had lovingly restored. One day, Allie sees an article in a local paper about Noah’s handwork. She knows that she’s got to find him and makes a decision once and for all about what to do with her life and her love. When she finds him again, their love revives and she chooses to stay with the man that she has always loved, Noah.
After some years, a man (James Garner) is reading an old notebook to a woman (Gena Rowlands) that he visits every day in a nursing home. When that man finishes the book, we know that he is Noah and the woman to whom h reads every day is Allie. She suffers from Alzheimer’s, and Noah does everything to prevent Allie from forgetting their exciting love story.
“The Notebook” shows other sides of a strong and beautiful love story. Other stories finish when a woman and a man stay together, but this one goes beyond, and tells us about the problems that all relationships have to face, which makes it more real.