The Notebook Review

Rating: 8/10 (2 April 2011)

The Notebook came out in 2004. This movie is a drama of constancy. The Notebook begins with an older man reading a diary/notebook to a woman affected with Alzheimer's that he regularly visits at a retirement home. He reads this story hoping that the women will remember and realize that they are the characters from the love story. In the movie when the older man reads the notebook, his words bring to life his story about how he met a girl at a carnival and they feel in love, but the young lady's parents disapproved of him because of his financial state and tried to separate them. In the end, World War II evidently separated the two lovers, and after seven years haven taken different paths they then were passionately reunited. They feel in love once again and got married and had children. At the end of the notebook the old women remembers who he is, as she does every time he finishes reading the story to her. At the end of the movie the old man was so happy she remembered her and the end up dying together in their sleep. I would strongly recommend adding this movie to your romance collection.