beauty in a movie

Rating: 10/10 (14 October 2018)

The movie opens up with an elderly woman in a nursing home. along with this woman in a nursing home is an elderly man asking to read to her. Seeing the elderly man and woman first might confuse the viewer because they may wonder what their relevance to the movie. As the movie goes along the man is telling his story from his book. The viewer may get caught up in the movie forgetting the older man is reading the book. The director does not let the viewer get too caught up because he brings the movie back to the older man. The scenes where the older man and woman are not being shown is the beautiful love story between a young rich girl and a young poor boy and how one summer they cross paths at a fair in the small town of New Bern, North Carolina. The two seem to have everything going against them. Whether it is the girl's, (Allie) parents who believe the boy (Noah) is trash and doesn't deserve her or Allie's ambitions and her life ahead of her which was always destined. The two end up breaking up after that one summer but they do not leave each other without the viewer's heart being torn. The movie shows they clearly love each other but obstacles seem to be too big. At one point in the movie, the love story takes a break and we are brought back to the nursing home. the elderly man, Duke, his children come to visit him. the elderly woman ,Allie, is with him and grants permission to meet his kids. The kids introduce themselves and after while Allie leaves. It is then revealed to the viewer that Allie suffers from Alzheimer's and she doesn't remember that the kids standing in front of her are her kids. It is also revealed that Duke is indeed her husband that she also does not remember. This creates a shock and a slight turn in the movie because viewers realize the two broke but somehow the end up together over 60 years later, but how? The movie is brought back to the stories of the love story of Noah and Allie. This brings the close of the scene of the two young lovers and close onto how they found their way back to each other despite the odds. The two lovers find out that when one truly loves the other they always find their way back if they try hard enough. The writers and directors of the movie wants the viewer to want to be Noah and Allie. Girls dreaming of a man who will go through what seems to be a lifetime of mountains to end up with the only girl he could ever truly love. Maybe the also wanted guys to have a girl like Allie who is worth the problems because they could want to love a girl the way Not loved her. The very end of the movie which many people interprets to be sad and will "rip your heart out" can be seen as to be sweet because the two lovers are still in love ad they leave the earth together and so their love story die with each other.