Monday, October 29, 2007

"The Notebook"


The Notebook is one of my favorite movies yet. It is about an elderly man named Noah, who they call "Duke" and his wife named Allie. Noah begins to read a love story from his notebook to his wife Allie who has Alzheimer's. Before she was diginoized with Alzheimer's, Allie wrote a love story of her and Noah down in a notebook. She gave it to him and told him to read it to her on days she couldn't remember, promising that her memory would come back as Noah read her their love story.

Noah and Allie met a carnival through their friends. . Noahwho is a country boy fell in love with Allie who is with his a seventeen-year-old girl from a rich family. Noah an Allie spent a summer in love. Allie lives with her parents, who are staying in Seabook for only the summer. Allie's father, a Southern Millionaire, seems to be okay with Allie and Noah's relationship, Allie's mother is not so approving. One night, a week before Allie is to leave, Allie and Noah go up to an abandoned house. Finn, Noah's friends comes running in to who tells them Allie's parents have every cop out in town looking for her. They returned to the Allie's house, Allie's parents ban her from seeing Noah. She fights and disagrees with her parents. Then Allie fights with Noah outside and the two decide to break up. Allie immediately regrets the decision but Noah drives away. The next morning, Allie's mother tells her that they're going home that morning instead of next week. Allie immaditaly tries to find Noah, but is forced to leave without saying good-bye. Noah, devastated to be separated from Allie, begins to write one letter a day for a year, only to get no reply because Allie's mother kept the letters from her. They have no choice than to move on with their lives. Allie becomes a nurse for the wounded soldiers, where she meets a very wealthy good lookin man. Allie spends time with him and the two eventually become engaged, to the joy of Allie's parents.

While trying on her wedding dress, Allie reads about Noah completing there dream house, in a newspaper that they always talked about, and faints. She decides to visit Noah in Seabrook, and the two spend a bit of time together, talking about what has been happening in their lives. Noah invites Allie to see him again the next day, and they both go for a ride in a rowboat. Not long later, Allie confronts Noah and asks him why she had not heard from him for all those years. Noah tells her he had sent her 365 letters and the they find out that Allie's mother had hidden them from her daughter. With all emotions of saddness they both share there love for eachother and both are convinced it wasn't never over.

Allies mother comes to see her daughter and realizes about what has happened. Her mother warns Allie that her fiance knows something about her in Seabrook and is on his way up to talk to her. She tells her daughter she hopes she makes the right choice, and hands her the 365 letters Noah had written seven years ago. Noah and Allie talk and get into a brief argument, where Noah continuously asks her what she wants in life. Allie then leaves the heartbroken

Noah and returns to the inn where she tells soon to be husband was staying. She had to make a choice, Noah or Lon her Fiance. Allie of course picked the love of her life Noah

Toward the end of the movie, the elderly couple is in a room having dinner together when suddenly Allie comes back and realized it was the couple that he was reading about. Saddly that only lasted a couple of months when she lost it again. Noah is heartbroken. They both ended up in the hospital. Noah left his room to go see his wife.They lyed down in the hospital bed together and talked, and Allie asks him if he thinks their love could take them away together, to which Noah replies, "I think our love can do anything we want it to." They fall asleep holding on to each other, and the next morning, the nurse finds they have both died in their sleep.

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