The Love Story of Our Generation

Rating: 10/10 (29 April 2012)

The Notebook is a movie based on the best-selling novel by Nicholas Sparks. The movie is about Noah Calhoun (James Garner) visiting a female (Gena Rowlands) living at the assisted living home that he is also a resident of. He connects with her daily by reading an old, tattered notebook that tells the incredible journey of a young couple (played by Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams) and their journey of love and loss. The story starts as a summer romance and takes you through them falling in love and then being torn apart by unapproving parents. From then on their lives took incredibly different paths. His life leads him into World War II and hers takes her through more of a privileged life of going to college and becoming a nurse for the injured soldiers of the war. They are separated for many years until fate appears to step in and bring the young man back to his hometown where he puts everything he has into restoring an old farm house. The young woman preparing for her future finds herself longing to go back to the town where she spent that incredible summer. They both then find themselves torn between their past and their futures unable to resist the temptation of a second chance. The movie is definitely one for the record books as one of the great love stories of our generation.