A GREAT love story!

Rating: Null/10 (13 August 2004)

I just got done reading everyone's comments on the movie, "The Notebook." I remember reading this novel a long time ago and I didn't really recall too many of the details except that Allie had Alzheimer's Disease and her one true love read to her to make her remember. Beyond that, it was kind of hazy! In that respect, the movie was amazing because I didn't really know what was going to happen and I looked forward to every single scene. Ryan Gosling is an amazing actor! I remember when I used to watch him on "The Mickey Mouse Club" when he was around eleven-years-old. In one particular scene, he was singing a song and he just looked at the camera and smiled and winked and I thought he had such expression for such a young child--obviously that carried over to his acting career! He's so effortless--not many actors can make you REALLY believe that it's not a movie--that it's really happening. It's like he and Rachel McAdams were really in love--I wonder how she could resist him!! ;) All of the scenes that were mentioned in the other comments are pretty much my favorite ones, too. I have to add one thing, though--when Allie and Lon are talking in the room and he says he wants her to himself and she responds by saying something like she was confused because Noah made her feel like one person and Lon made her feel like someone else. (Forgive me, I don't have it all memorized...yet!). I can totally relate to that! Many times in your life you come across people that you could potentially love and you act different when you're with different people. Everyone has certain qualities that attract you to them and then you find those qualities within yourself as well! That's why this movie is so great--no one here is a bad guy or doing something wrong to make the audience root for Noah. Lon is a wonderful character as well--rich, handsome, gentlemanly, and very much in love with Allie. That's why I can understand Allie's struggle trying to choose because both of them would compliment her and her personality. I bawled my eyes out during this movie!!! For one thing, my dad's name is Lon!! But mostly because it reminds me of my own grandmother and her battle with Alzheimer's. It broke my heart watching Gena Rowlands play the old Allie. How she couldn't even remember her own husband and children. How she didn't remember being able to play the piano (my grandma plays the guitar)--but every so often the light begins to glimmer and something is remembered from the past. Anyway, I'd like to write more, but I need to get off the computer!