Truly beautiful

Rating: 10/10 (18 August 2015)

I watched this film for the first time today, and wow, it is truly remarkable. The sincerity in Noah (Ryan Gosling) and Allie (Rachel Mcadams) is astounding. The acting is beautiful and really makes you believe that they were in love. The plot is really quite simple but extremely affective, the old man Noah (James Garner) is reading a book to the old lady Allie (Gena Rowlands) about their life (due to her having Alzheimer's disease) to try make her remember the beautiful memories they shared as a couple. It really came as a shock to me when Allies mother revealed that she too was in love with a 'country boy' as that was unexpected from her being so against Noah and Allie being together but once that scene was presented it some how fell into place and made the story more understandable as to why she wanted her to make the 'right choice' afterwords. The scenes in the film which really tugged on my heart strings were when Allie came back to see Noah after realizing he'd made the house how she wanted and defying her fiancé just so she could be with Noah and reminisce on old memories. Although when they fought due to her fiancé looking for her and she chose to go see her fiancé I was in complete floods of tears thinking 'no!! How could you do this Allie he's in love with you' and all through the scene of her driving back to 'Seabrook inn' I was also in floods of tears with her until a sigh of relief wept over me when she returned to Noah. The final scene which really made me wail is the end scenes strictly focused on the old Allie and Noah, when Noah makes a recovery from the hospital and sneaks away to go see his wife and remarkably she remembers him, then when he lays next to her holds her hand and they fall asleep peacefully it is beautiful. The final scene is definitely the most upsetting of them all, the nurse comes in to the room to find Noah and Allie asleep together with Allie looking majorly pale she then touches her hand and it's evident that either Allie passed away or both passed away and that was it I just could not stop crying, this beautiful scene was the final piece of the story and it couldn't have been made in a better way. It summed up their love for each other. The only negative comment I have for this film is they could of made the scene in the war a little more sincere when Fin gets hit by a bomb, I don't think they spent enough time on it and jumped straight into Allie being in the hospital as a nurse. Overall this film is a romance which no woman or man should ever want to miss, but you should definitely get some tissues ready! 10 out of 10 it's truly beautiful.