A Hard Decision

Rating: Null/10 (14 July 2011)

"The Notebook" takes place in a nursing home with an older man reading a story to a woman with Alzheimer's. The story is of two people with different backgrounds falling in love during the summer around WWII time, only to be torn apart. She is from a rich family and he is working class. He tries all he can to be with her. While he is fixing up her dream house, her mother keeps the letters that he wrote her secret. She believes that it was just a summer romance and that he has forgotten about her. She moves on and finds a man that her parents will approve of. She comes back to her summer home, only to realize that he never forgot about her and he would not give up hope that one day they will be together. She has to decide on who she will be with, the man she has always loved or the man who can provide for her.
In the movie we can feel the love between the two actors. The movie watcher can put themselves in the place of the actors. We see the conflict in the decision that the female actress has to make. Most women and men can relate to the story line because at some point in time we all deal with it. We can see the struggle that everyone feels in the story line.
The way that director Nick Cassavetes portrays the way that the actors dress shows us what class they are in without the need to say. The rich white girl wears bold colors and fancier cloths. The poor white boy wears dull colors and cheaper cloths like overalls and torn cloths. The music choice makes use feel the love in the scene. The way that the Cassavetes ends the movie with a twist is makes use think about the whole movie over and makes use want to see it again. The flashbacks between the story of the people in love and the two in the nursing home, makes use see the point of view of both the old and the young.