The Notebook by Jeremy Leven - 8 out of 10

The Notebook by Jeremy Leven
8 out of 10


Audiences have loved this film, while the critics have been unimpressed.

Be a merit finder, not a fault finder.

And the motion picture has a remarkable love story at its core, similar in some ways with the quintessential Romeo and Juliet.

Ryan Gosling is Noah, a young, bright young man who falls in love with Allie aka Rachel McAdams.
The girl is much richer, indeed, the boy is poor.

She reciprocates and shares the deep feeling of her suitor.
But without the drama of the deep animosity between Montagues and Capulates, the woman's mother especially and her father too oppose vehemently this bond.

Furthermore, Noah himself has a spirit of self sacrifice and thinks his rich partner should go and study at university, in the city, far away.
That means their love would not survive.

When he tells Allie that they would probably separate at the end of the summer, she is aghast and furious.
Her mother packs her off the following day.

Noah would write and send three hundred and sixty five letters! 
Nonetheless, the mother takes them all and puts them away.

Thinking that she has no message from the man she loves, the heroine decides to move on.
And the perfect man to help smooth the pain comes to the center of the stage.

Meanwhile, Noah is helped by his father, the stupendous Sam Shepard, to acquire the former residence, a mansion really, of the woman he still worships.
Before marriage, Allie comes to visit her old home and finds the hero there.

A conflict would ensue.
She has promised to marry and she has feelings for another man.

Would she stay with Noah?
Is it possible for their love to bloom now?

"All's Well That Ends Well"

But will it end well?