the notebook

Rating: 8/10 (26 March 2014)

Producer: Lynn Harris and Mark Johnson Director: Nick Cassavetes Rating: 8/10 Distributor: New Line Cinema Running time: 123 minutes
The film is based on a book written by Nicolas Sparks. Nick Cassavetes directed the movie. Besides beginning a good director, he is a good actor as well. In the same year, he made this movie, he received a Daytime Emmy Award for a television special "The incredible Mrs. Ritchie". Another great and successful movie is "My sister's keeper". This movie as well as "The notebook" are tearjerkers, but they are not just tearjerkers, they tell a great story too. The movie begins in a nursing home, where a old man called Duke reads a story to a old woman, whose memory is slowly fading. The story is about a country boy, Noah, and a city girl, Allie. They meet at a fair, it was love at first site for Noah. After a special night where Allie also fell in love with him, they were together the whole summer. At the end of the summer Allie's parents took her back home, so she could go to college. At first she wanted to go, however at the end she wanted to stay with Noah. Although Noah wrote a letter every day, Allie never received one. After seven years of heartache Allie met a rich soldier Lon and got engaged. One day, before she got married, Allie saw a picture of Noah in a newspaper. She wants to see him and went back to the village to spend some time with him. Allie didn't want to leave, so she had to choose between the rich Lon and Noah. The part of Noah was played by Ryan Gosling. He started acting when he was 13 years old. He doesn't just act, he writes music and has a band "Dead Man's Bones". This year he started to write a script "How to catch a Monster". Ryan played the role very well, he's nonchalant way of playing brings the country boy alive. He's co-actress is Rachel McAdams, is playing the role of Allie. Just as Ryan she began acting at the age of 13. In 2004 she played in the movie "Mean Girls". For her role in this movie she got the award for "Breakthrough female performance". Duke was played by James Garner, a very famous actor. The old woman was played by Gena Rowlands. This movie won 11 prices and was nominated 7 times. One of the prices was for the best kiss. Maybe this was due to the fact that the lead actors had a affaire during the making of the movie. This is a great example of a romantic drama. It is a love story, but with ups and downs. At first she is not very fond of him, he has to persuade her to spend time with him. A good example is the following scene: He climes on the Ferris wheel to ask her on a date. He hangs on a bar and pretends he's gone fall unless she says yes. I found it a very good movie. It is not just a typical romantic movie, the story could also be reality. It is not all fantasy, summer love happens in real life. You are dragged into the story because the persons are very sympathetic. The movie shows us how people can care for each other, like Duke reads to the women every day. So I recommend this movie because it just a simple movie and not a romantic cliché. You don't always need to have special effects, simple can also be good.