I really knew this film under the name of "Diary of a Passion", many times I confused it with a movie that starred Bratt Pit, the name was quite similar. The truth is that I started to watch it, and the main actor caught my attention, I thought he was very handsome, it was the first time I watched a movie with Ryan Gosling in it.
The first scene grabbed me and took me to see this film that made me laugh, surprised me, made me fall in love and moved me. It was an accumulation of emotions and the truth is that I did not expect it, especially because of how the film began, in a very romantic and funny way at the same time. As it progressed, I realized that the story was immersed in another, that is to say, it was presented in two stages.
It all starts when Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) looks at Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) for the first time and is totally blown away by her beauty. Noah asks his friend Finn (Kevin Connolly) to introduce him to her. Finn is Allie's friend's boyfriend, and this way the four of them could date.
She won't even look at him, he's just passing through Seabrook, South Carolina, spending the summer, but Noah didn't give up and focused on winning her over. At a carnival, Allie went to the amusement park with another boy, but the townie sabotaged the encounter and Allie stayed with him. From that night on, they became inseparable. However, what seemed to be a perfect romance was threatened to be a summer love, Allie had to return to the city, coupled with the impediment of this relationship by her mother, Anne Hamilton (Joan Allen).
The story was set in the 1940s and prejudice was the order of the day. Allie was a rich, city girl from a good family, while Noah was a small-town boy who made his living in a lumber mill. The clash of social classes was one of the problems in their relationship, plus she was just passing through Seabrook. Allie did not have her mother's approval and Noah was aware of everything. This caused a lot of arguments between them and they separated.
A few years passed and Allie found a new love. Noah, for his part, never forgot her, but was almost resigned to never seeing her again. As a man at last, he took refuge in Martha's arms. From time to time, the love story between these young people stopped and it was when a couple of old men entered the scene, a man told the story to a woman who was confined in a center. She listened very attentively to the story and asked him to tell her more.
The story reveals that she has Alzheimer's and the old man tries to make her remember, or in a way, that story recreates the mind of that old woman and helps her exercise her brain. When the old man continues the story, at some point he describes that Allie and Noah meet again and even though she is in another relationship she realizes that she still loves him and for that reason she must break off their engagement.
The old woman, who continues to listen to the story and in the middle of it suffers some crises, manages to remember and realizes who are the protagonists of that extraordinary love story. It is there when her question is answered: if Allie and Noah manage to stay together.
Los personajes principales
The main characters
Rachel McAdams played a very different role from Regina George in "Heavy Girls", in that movie she was popular, from a wealthy family and very bad, hehe. Allie Hamilton had in common with Regina the economic position, but differed in other aspects, she was cheerful, I remember she laughed like nobody else, a noble girl with wonderful feelings. She was somewhat arrogant, it is true, but her only sin was to love someone who was not of her class.
Rayan Gosling has worked in many films, his characterization has been very versatile, but in this film we see him as a dreamer in love with a strong, proud and determined character. Here we could see his funny side, he made me laugh at the beginning while he was trying to conquer Allie. He did some crazy things like asking Allie to go out with him or he would kill himself, of course, in comedy mode, that scene was very funny.
Mi Opinion
My Opinion
It is a film where romance and drama take over the film almost in its entirety, despite giving us some funny scenes. While the old man was telling the story, not only that sick woman wanted to know the ending, I did too, I was caught by the story and wanted to know how it would end. Beyond all the handicaps Noah and Allie suffered, Alzheimer's disease touched my heart. I felt for an instant that I went back in time. I remembered again that fateful time when my mother had that disease that took away many years of her life, perhaps she would be alive today.
That old man left everything to be with her, to make her days more bearable and never abandon her, just as my father did, and as he always told me and my brother: "there was no way to mitigate the pain of seeing his companion vanish in time and not being able to do anything for her", that was his greatest sorrow. When I saw these scenes I immediately connected with the characters and it was easy for me to understand the decision that old man made. Perhaps those who did not go through such a situation could only see the film as a classic love story and nothing more.
Lo que me gustó de The Notebook
What I liked about The Notebook
The beautiful love story between Noah and Allie, even envy gives, I consider it a privilege to find a love like that. It crossed the barriers of time, of many adversities and absurd prejudices. Noah's personality, his craziness and how both of them, despite being so different, achieved a totally perfect gear. That love that stays with you, that stays with you through thick and thin, is what captivated me in this film. The desire to fight and overcome in life, it really is a story with many nuances. Whenever I can see it I do, it really is wonderful. Of the few romantic stories I have seen, The Notebook is one of my favorites.
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