A first rate romance

Rating: Null/10 (23 October 2004)

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I took my wife clothes shopping and then to a chick flick. That made me top dog; a situation nearly undone by an argument over whether in the early part of the film the setting is, romantically set in the house that Noah built or, more logically, a nursing home in a similar location. I quite enjoyed the film. The main character, Noah is engaged in the Sisyphean task of reading the story of a life long romance to his wife, who is suffering from dementia, in the hope that she will remember him and their romance. Apparently he has done this a few times and having labored through the story, is rewarded with a relatively (minutes) where she remembers their life and love together. The story unfolds as he reads the narrative. Given the amount of alcohol that he consumes during history, it is ironic that she cops the dementia. The film certainly elicited tears from my wife.