Story behind true love.

Rating: 10/10 (29 October 2005)

Ryan Gosling (Noah) and Rachel McAdams (Allie) are two young adults who find true love one summer, against all odds. He is a poor kid and shes the rich girl. This starts out as a basic rich girl/ poor boy, Romeo and Juliet kind of thing. Her parents don't want her with him and so forth. They beat those odds and that love grew and changed their lives. This love at times was...
1. Sweet, where you see them together at the beach when Allie tells Noah "Now say you're a bird too." and he responds "If you're a bird, I'm a bird." 2. Forbidden, when Allie's mom argues with her saying "She will wind up with her heart broken or pregnant! Now he's a nice boy, but he's..." Allie asks "He's WHAT? He is what? Tell me!" and her mother responds with determination "He is trash! Trash! Trash! Not for you!" 3. This movie shows all sides of love, even close to obsession. There are parts of the movie where Noah buys a house and works on it day in and day out just the way he promised Allie he would, even though he just saw her through a window kissing another guy (who happened to be her fiancé).
One of my favorite scenes in the movie, the day after Noah and Allie broke up, Noah wrote her a letter and one everyday after that for a year. They meet up and he tells her how much he still needs her and loves her by bringing up those letter... Allie "Why didn't you write me? Why? It wasn't over for me, I waited for you for seven years. But now its too late." Noah "I wrote you 365 letters. I wrote you everyday for a year." Allie "You wrote me?" Noah "Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over." The story is told in two parts. Young love that grows and old love that rekindles. Allie as an adult played by Gena Rowlands has the disease Alzheimer's, so an older Noah played by James Garner reads to her every day from a book she wrote herself about their love. Hoping she will remember one day about their love Noah sits there and sees his true love stare back at him as a stranger, you see his emotions, how this is killing him but he still does it in hopes that his Allie will come back to him. Garner did an excellent job in this film, though his scenes were short, he narrorates the film and you can hear it in his voice what Noah felt those times. You come to feel for him and hope it ends well.
My favorite lines in this movie are just a couple of words said twice in this movie. "I'll be seeing you" also the title of my favorite song in the movie.
It first appears at the end of Noahs first letter to Allie... "My Dearest Allie. I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter any more, because I know that what we had was real. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that's what you've given me. That's what I hope to give to you forever. I love you. I'll be seeing you. Noah" And at the end of the movie when Adult Allie asks Noah "Do you think our love can make miracles?" and Noah responds "I do." He then climbs into bed with her, she says good night, he says good night and then he says "I'll be seeing you." The next scene is when the nurse finds them both close together holding hands on Allies small twin size bed, at first it seems as if they are asleep, but they both passed away.
A love that can go through so much and still be there in the end. Thats the first time I've seen a love like this in a story or movie. It was a pleasure seeing this movie and its one of my treasured DVD's. It gets ten and a half stars from me if I could get that half star in there. Well done, beautiful cinematography, the script, the acting, the story. Good job.